Greetings: edit
I consider myself to be an ordinary citizen of the earth, with a well developed sense of wonder about the physical world around us and a corresponding level of inquisitiveness about how it evolved. The fancy advanced degrees I hold are from the school of hard knocks.
While my body of work regarding the Carolina Bays may be interest to many individuals, the moderator of the Carolina Bay has removed all external reference links to my GSA and AGU abstracts and presentations. Hopefully, those with interest can locate the material at the GSA and AGU web sites. I am providing links to those documents here in the projects section.
LiDAR DEM Imagery edit
My current fascination takes me to those enigmatic landforms of the US: the Carolina bays.
The Digital Elevation LiDAR Map linked on right covers ~ 600 square km centered on Rex, NC (Robeson County), and was generated in the Global Mapper GIS program using LiDAR data from the USGS. The colors shown are an indication of topographic elevation, from 16 m AMSL in the lower right, to 76 m in upper left. Vertical resolutions of centimeters allow for visualization of the form and extent of the bays’ otherwise imperceptible rims. Rockfish Creek flows along the northern edge. CSX’s Atlantic Coast Line rail bisects the area diagonally along a strikingly straight right-of-way; Interstate 95 winds N-S on the right.
This image was awarded first prize in the 2010 GSA Meeting Photography Exhibit contest, in the abstract category. The data can be viewed directly in Google Earth using the following kmz file:
Rex_NC LiDAR kmz
Links to projects edit
| Cintos.org web site
| Carolina Bay of the Day blog index
| Mid Pleictocene Impact Manifold web site
Links to paper & abstracts edit
| Postulating an unconventional location for the missing mid-Pleistocene transition impact: Repaving North America with a cavitated regolith blanket while dispatching Australasian tektites and giving Michigan a thumb
| Terrestrial-ejecta-suborbital-transport-and-the Terrestrial ejecta suborbital transport and the rotating frame transform
| Cataclysm on the Continent: Offering a Non-Classical Solution for the Geomorphology of Enigmatic Surficial Sedimentary Formations Blanketing North America
| Dolines and Carolina Bays on the Dougherty Plain; An Unconventional Hypothesis for a Conjoint Geomorphology
| Shared Set of Spatial Relationships Observed Between Tektite Strewn Fields and Their Correlated Astroblemes; Reliable Modus Operandi or Purely Coincidental?
| An Incomprehensible Cosmic Impact at the Mid Pleistocene Transition; Searching for the Missing Crater Using Australasian Tektite Suborbital Analysis and Carolina Bays' Major Axes Triangulation
| The Carolina Bays of Ridge Spring, SC
| A Proposed Taxonomy for Carolina Bay Circumferential Rim Planforms; Findings of Robust Adherence to Distinctive Archetypes Is Supported by Lidar-Derived Digital Elevation Maps
| Carolina Bays and Aeolian Dunes: Playing Nice in the Sandbox?
| GSA Annual Meeting 2012 Poster Presentation: Where The Bays Are: A Temporal Tale Of Carolina Bay Geomorphology As Told In Lidar By The Wando And Socastee Terraces
| GSA Southeastern Section Meeting 2012 Oral Presentation: Surficial Quartz Sand Deposits On The Atlantic Coastal Plain: Eolian, Fluvial Or Marine? The Case For A Catastrophic Delivery Mechanism
| GSA Southeastern Section Meeting 2012 Oral Presentation: Surficial Quartz Sand Deposits On The Atlantic Coastal Plain: Eolian, Fluvial Or Marine? The Case For A Catastrophic Delivery Mechanism
| GSA Northeastern Section Meeting 2012 Oral Presentation: Lidar-Derived Digital Elevation Maps Of Maryland, Delaware And New Jersey Used To Identify Carolina Bay Landforms
| GSA Annual Meeting 2011 Oral Presentation: Lidar Digital Elevation Maps Employed In Carolina Bay Survey
| GSA Annual Meeting 2011 Poster: Lidar-Derived Digital Elevation Maps Of The Delmarva Peninsula And Southern New Jersey Used To Identify Carolina Bay Landforms; Their Planform Shape And Orientation Changes Systematically With Latitude
| GSA SE Meeting 2011 Poster: Correlating An Impact Structure With The Carolina Bays
| GSA Annual Meeting 2010 Oral Presentation: Lidar Imagery Employed In Carolina Bays Research
| GSA Annual Meeting 2010 Poster: Correlating An Impact Structure With The Carolina Bays
| 2009 AGU Fall Meeting Poster PP31D-1387 Geomorphology Of Possible Younger Dryas Boundary Impact Structure
Cintos (talk) 22:37, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
--Cintos (talk) 17:05, 6 December 2010 (UTC)