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Could a meteor impact into an ice sheet explain the mysteries of the Michigan Basin and the Carolina Bays? 🌎 In this clip, we explore how the Great Lakes region may have acted like a catcher’s mitt, absorbing a catastrophic strike during the Younger Dryas. The science points to nanodiamonds, microtubules, and the black mat layer — all signatures of impact. But without a visible crater, researchers are debating whether the ice sheet absorbed the energy, launching stadium-sized icebergs into the sky, or whether an airburst shockwave carved the elliptical formations we see today. 👉 This is a fascinating look at catastrophism, geology, and how much we still don’t know about Earth’s recent past. 🔗 Full Episode Here: https://youtu.be/T91_7PIKtmE #YoungerDryas #CarolinaBays #MichiganBasin #AncientMysteries #Geology #PodcastClips
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Michigan basin is pretty much the entire state of Michigan. No way. Yeah. Like like inside the the Great Lakes, that whole that whole the the what they call the mitten. >> Yeah. >> It was almost acted like a catch catcher mitt cuz I think the ice sheet right on top of that got hammered. >> And so as I understand it, basically if a meteor hits the ground, it creates microtubules, nano diamonds, all of these things like the black mat that you're talking about that are only created generally from a meteor impact, maybe some lightning. >> Yeah. Right now though, the the the the comet research group um they haven't found any craters yet. Right. >> Right. >> Now, if they hit the ice sheet, then again, I think that we would have something and we don't have enough science right now to to cross that off the list because we I mean, when have we ever >> studied an impact into an ice sheet? We haven't. We haven't. There was one that happened in uh on on Mars and we have like video, you know, or not video, we have picture evidence of it. Um yeah, we just we don't have enough science behind glacial impacts. We don't >> It reminds me of like an airbag or like a stunt man jumping out of a building and instead of falling on the ground and g making a huge indent, he hits the airbag and it cushions him then sprays all the air out. But this is this is a huge >> and so imagine like there being loose ice on that spray and it just being launched into the air. You know, that's that's what we're talking about. >> Well, like the size of icebergs almost. >> These would have been huge. I mean, >> icebergs flying through the sky hitting Nebraska basically. >> Yeah. Some like if if if the science is accurate, some of these could have been some of the ejected ice could have been the size of like stadiums like like huge like really really large chunks of ice leaving >> Michigan going up into the atmosphere. Now there's some debate. I actually recently was talking with a guy who has a PhD in physics and and he is adamant he he has actually on board with everything we've said about Carolina Bays uh with the exception of how they form perfect ellipses and he thinks that uh that as they came back into the atmosphere that there's no the physics doesn't support them being solid when they hit the ground that they would have burst before they hit the ground and it's actually the shock wave of the air burst that created the elliptical shapes. I'm if he could back it up with science. I'm all about listening and uh and changing and and you know I'm not out I'm not I'm not out to to like get anybody or anything like that. I've been following the science for a long time and uh you know if it if it takes me in another direction I'm not I'm I'm okay with doing that. So um so yeah, air burst could be a a conclusion for that too. So we'll see. Um but like I said that that's new. >> So when do you think this happened? So, so for a long time I did think the younger dus because it that's been a sexy topic. You know, you guys have both heard about the younger drius. You you know what it means now. A lot of people still don't. A lot of people still have no clue that at the end of our life ice ice age as we were coming out of the ice age that we got rocked back into it for 1,200 years. A lot of people have no clue that we did that.