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Hello to Charles Chandler,

 

I fully agree with your assessment of the Younger Dryas Period that it surely caused great catastrophy about 11,500 BP (not 12,900 BP as is explained in my article about radiocarbon dating of this era). The beginning and ending of this period was compressed into a much shorter time span. Yes, indeed,s the Carolina bays were caused by this event when high energy discharges on the North American ice sheet sputtered ice chunks southward from the James Bay region in Canada. My article goes further to explain the eventual disappearance of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, the dramatic climatic change of Siberia with the burial of megafauna in Yedoma and rock ice/loess soils, the extensive Holocene extinction, and the Great Deluge that followed due to the changing Earth's geiod that included major slippage of the East Antarctica ice sheet into the ocean. Please review my article, "The Great Deluge: Fact or Fiction" found in my website, ettingerjournals.com. I hope to have interesting discussions with you that go well beyond any simple impact or meteor swarm hypothesis.

 

All the best, Doug Ettinger