Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. On a recent trip with Austin Jenkins (see his blog at Saunter in the Sandhills and learn about trips he leads), Austin explained the current theory of how Carolina Bays were created. He first discussed the reasons that don’t support earlier theories such as meteor showers, ice comet explosions or even dinosaur footprints! He then explained the idea supported by James Luken, of Coastal Carolina University which suggests that wind and waves have shaped these natural land formations that have caused such speculation over the years. He reports that in the Arctic coastal plain they have eroding lakes that are developing the same elipitical shape as our the Carolina Bays that are found across the coastal plain of both North and South Carolina and Georgia. Mr. Savage was right about one thing, these land formations do hold many mysteries.
Mysteries of Carolina Bays
