::: Circles and Patterns, Outer Banks, North Carolina & the Carolina Bays

Circles and Patterns, Outer Banks, North Carolina

A new satellite image study has been posted to the site that includes circular features
aligned in rows off the coast of North Carolina near the Outer Banks.
Anomalous areas can also be seen here that contain unusual patterns
that may be artificial in origin. An interesting similarity is the fact
that these features seem to mimic the shape of the Carolina Bays that
can be found along the East coast of the US. However, these features
are much smaller than the Bays. Scientists are still unsure how the
Bays were formed but the most popular theory is a meteor event although
no evidence of meteoric residue has ever been found. It's possible the
circular features throughout the Bahamas and Cuba could also be related
to those in Florida and along the Eastern Coast of the US.

The discovery of the ancient city of Akroteri on the island of Santorini was made by a local landowner who noticed numerous circular sink holes on his land.  One day while inspecting his land, he fell into one of the sink holes and discovered the lost city of Akroteri below.  The  smaller circular features in Florida, the Bahamas, the Keys, Cuba, the Caycos Islands, NC and along the East coast may not be evidence of meteor strikes, but they could be evidence of something below ground.  This is a possibility that has been overlooked by researchers and theorists as to how the Carolina bays and similar circular features were formed.  Perhaps they could be artificial in origin.  The jury is still out.

Carolina Bays
"The precise geomorphologic process responsible for creating these
extraordinary features has long been debated, and more than a dozen theories of origin are commonly cited in the Carolina Bay literature:
* Marine theories include sand bar dams across drowned valleys (Glenn, 1895);
swales in underwater sand dunes (Glenn, 1895); submarine scour by eddies,
currents and undertow (Melton, 1934); progressive lagoon segmentation (Cooke,1934); gyroscopic eddies (Cooke, 1940; 1954); and fish nests created by the
simultaneous waving of fish fins in unison over submarine artesian springs
(Grant, 1945). Subaerial hypotheses include artesian spring sapping (Toumey,
1848); peat burning by paleo-Indians (Wells and Boyce, 1953); eolian deflation
and/or deposition (Raisz, 1934; Price, 1951, 1958, 1968; and Carson and Hussey,1962); solution (Johnson, 1936; Lobeck, 1939; Le Grand, 1953; and Shockley and
others, 1956); periglacial thaw lakes tWolfe, 1953); wind deflation combined
with perched water tables and lake shore erosion at a 90o
angle to the prevailing wind (Thom, 1970); artesian spring sapping and eolian
deposition (Johnson, 1936); and progressive lagoon segmentation modified by
eolian processes stabilized by climatic changes (Price, 1951, 1958, 1968).

In general, however, the debate is properly divided into two camps: those who
propose a number of terrestrial mechanisms operating together to form the Bays, and others who conclude that a single encounter with a space borne object best accounts for their unusual characteristics. The fifty odd year exchange between
these two groups reveals a fundamental division of geological science and,
indeed, other earth and human historical sciences. The question at hand is an
old one: Are all earth's features and geological phenomena best explained by
slow mechanisms, identifiable today and operating over long periods of time --
or is it reasonable to include dramatic, if seemingly rare, catastrophic events
as punctuating factors in earth's evolution? The search for the origin of the
Carolina Bays is heavily, and negatively, influenced by this
wider dispute.

Field surveys were notable for their failure to locate any meteoritic
material, or other features traditionally associated with meteor strikes (Ray
Kacrowski, 1977, Carolina Bays: A Comparison with Modern Oriented Lakes, p
25-35). The researchers, however, should not be faulted for their lack of
determination. Hundreds of Bays were examined in difficult field conditions
(Savage) and included detailed magnetometer surveys suggesting buried material
in certain locations, but failing to locate samples or produce consistent
results ."