North carolina, usa craters
The multiple small craters along the coastal plain are from a serial impact, a break apart or secondary material from a really big impact.
Crowders Mountain, NC near Charlotte. This is the back side of the Silurian Impact Extinction Event Crater. It made the Mountains/Appalachian. The blue and red are nano particles of iron and cobalt typical of most large earth impacts. The fractal tree construction is an energy effect of shock dispersing in a plasma. The holes are a stretching or evaporative effect.
Crater crust, the backside of the Silurian Extinction Event Crater. Notice how it is banded with a fault edge. The Charlotte Belt is part of the molten meteor material. The Carolina Belt is the ash.
Like the other planets an impact will occur in the crater wall of earlier impacts. Such is the case with the Howell, TN Impact and you can see another here in South Western, NC.
Impact expansions/nodules, type 1 impactite. A type 1 impactite is made from the impacted material, limestone in this case and is made during the first and final periods of the impact event. Fiber crystals present. Fiber crystals are the same as volcanic Pele Hair but the impact version and the specimens appear to have limestone examples (see attached marked 1). Circular holes are impalements of impact made plasma balls (see attached marked 2). Oct. 21, 2023.
Kristin Ward
I find these pieces on the beach often and I am very curious about their formation and what they are called. Wilmington, NC United States.
Besides the obvious crater(s) arc shoreline of NC at Wilmington, there is an impact crater trench offshore. Oct. 21, 2023.
The Western NC/Eastern TN centered impact crater is still resolving impact stresses as shown on the earthquake map below. April 19, 2024.
This Tektite arc may correspond to the western NC/Eastern TN centered large earth impact. April 19, 2024.
A high energy signature charged phenomena as you can see from the fractal stag horn effect. It also has a couple of shifts that occurred while still plastic in the impact progression. So, what is a stag horn effect? A high energy trunk like lighting will more or less keep the same diameter. As the trunk loses energy it will branch or taper to a point. This tapering to a point is the stag horn effect. Where did the charge come from? The highest energy earth events are impact accretion the fundamental source of the earth's heat btw. Even a small 10-mile crater represents millions of megatons of energy. Besides impact being a generator with pulverized particles swirling everywhere; millions of megatons of energy will make a plasma cloud like you see with atomic bombs. While it is believed ionization is a single step result of the atomic bombs, the subsequent ion change of elements is implied in the physics like happened in the tragic Castle Bravo test. You had an unpredicted up charged blast and the know fallout producing ionization danger. These known explosions are orders of magnitude smaller than earth impacts. July 4, 2024.
Lisa York Hunter · ·
I came across these beautiful quartz veins in Uwharrie National Forest, Montgomery Co. The shape of the second rock was rather interesting.
While the whole state of NC is part of a very big crater which you can see from the fault mapping signature with the west side of a big crater clearly identified, some smaller craters make divots which likely made the specimen from Montgomery County shown above. July 4, 2024.
Fractal Separation. Besides the shifting that occurred in this specimen, it has this breakup feature. Is a liquid physics, like drops separating but in this case with high linear velocity. As drops retain their shape as drops this is a much higher velocity in the miles per second category. Aug. 4, 2024.
