Carolina Bays

I don't know how many of you I've told about this. I've always been interested in history and especially SC history. This includes some things that are almost, but not quite unique to SC. When I moved to Myrtle Beach, I discovered something called Carolina Bays. In all these years, I had never heard of them. Even when I first heard of them, I thought they were just ocean inlets along the coast of SC and NC. After some research, I found that they are not even that kind of bay. In fact, the bays in Carolina Bays refer to the bay trees growing there. Carolina Bays are oval shaped depressions in the earth. They range from small to very large. Some are filled with water and some are not. At the eastern end of the oval there is a sand berm along the edge. If you took a handful of rocks and through them at some sandy ground, you would probably get a formation that is shaped like a Carolina Bay. There are similar formations along the eastern and gulf coasts and they're known by other names in other places. If you look on a Google map of Myrtle Beach while it's in the aerial view mode, you can see the Carolina Bays just north west of the city. Carolina Bays have been studied and while there are theories about them, no one is certain about how they came to be. Someone took a large map and drew lines through the long axis of the ovals and extended the lines until they intersected. The lines apparently intersected somewhere in Ohio. My theory is that a very large meteor exploded over Ohio thousands of years ago and all the pieces landed where all the Carolina Bays type depressions are. Hey, you in the back of the class, wake up!