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A model for the geomorphology of the Carolina Bays

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Carolina Bays

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Primary modern nonstandard ejecta-model source; label as claim provenance and distinguish model fit from accepted impact diagnostics.

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Carolina Bays are not established as an impact-crater field.

Answer / theory: The best current answer is no, not as a proven crater field. What supports it: They are real elliptical depressions, and older meteorite-scar arguments exist. What is weak or disputed: Shape alone is not impact proof, and age plus sediment evidence does not support a simple single impact event. Evidence level: Weak Evidence / Mostly Speculative
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Impact and ejecta models use Carolina Bays as catastrophe evidence, but the catalog provides no accepted, narrowly dated Younger Dryas crater-field evidence.

Answer / theory: No. They are used in YDIH arguments, but they do not provide a clean dated crater field. What supports it: The claim is visually memorable and easy to spread through maps. What is weak or disputed: The dating, mechanism, source-crater problem, and diagnostic marker chain remain weak. Evidence level: Weak Evidence
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Historical and modern nonstandard sources propose meteorite-scar or ejecta origins for Carolina Bays, but the listed geological and corrective sources do not establish a Younger Dryas impact origin.

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