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.
