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.
Impact rubble, that is why it is so diverse. By the way the clay is a nano particle pulverize in the impact. Fontana Lake, NC. David Lyles photo. Sept. 5, 2024.
Impact tectonics. This is an impactite, chert crypto crystalline. First let me point out that the Raft/Plate tectonics is a dead theory and always was just a shadow theory like Plato's cave for those who refuse to look directly at cause. Plate tectonics cannot make specimens with voids as it totally depends on pressure compression physics as a theory. This specimen is a micro example. The layers in this specimen were formed from the shock wave harmonics (false strata). They were broken and welded together in the impact shock chaos storm. Some pieces show more of the shock storm surface. As shock melts from the inside out you can see these layers melt welded in the center. Attached close up showing the impossibility of plate tectonics formation. Nor are you going to make this as a sediment. Dec. 12, 2024.
What is this? Found by French Broad river.
Impact nodule, this is a mixed explosion type. Feb. 4, 2025.
Linzy Salter
What's going on here? I have two of these from my Harnett County woods, both the same size and rounded shape. I'm familiar with the quartz in the area but these are crazy.
Old Geology Theory Hydrothermal alteration. Looks like this has quartz, metavolcanic material, and maybe a secondary inclusion. Hard to say for sure what it is at first glance. Can you test the beige material with a dilute acid?
New Theory response to the hydrothermal vent and metavolcanic theory of specimen formation.
Old Geology Theory Let's discuss mobilized minerals and depositing them. First let me start with the background. Although many articles have been written concerning raft/plate tectonics, none have ever addressed the simple physics of you cannot make arcs and circles with two plates crashing together. This specimen was found in Harnett County which is in a circular topography. I also spent a couple of years in bending science and at the time we made the most complex bends in the industry. Next let's move on to statistics for which I had to take a complete year of which is all you can take as an undergraduate. Based on Mars the Earth has around 2,000 surface craters of a mile diameter or greater per state. Also consider no other planet has raft/plate tectonics which scientifically is a theory killer. Please get the new book I suggested (Impact crater tectonics by Boothman). More problems with the current but fading model the surface mineralogy. Physics would fluidize minerals in a macro melt environment below the crust where they would tend to be less mixed and more banded. A hydrothermal would therefore tend to be a single-mineral. But wait this just gets worse for the theory. The common component minerals in this specimen and the usual others are stable like quartz and difficult to chemically precipitate or iron which would require a toxic salt deadly to life which is contrary to all the fossils we find. More background. The hydrothermal theory goes back 150 years. It was first called "Spring Release" then plagiarized as the "Mississippi Valley Type" (MVT). In 150 years no such location corresponding to specimens and this spring/hydrothermal has ever been identified just like the specimen presented. That is not pseudo-science just a failed theory. Is nothing wrong with that. It is the Hegelian thesis antithesis synthesis process. And that is what we are doing here. Finally let's discuss journalism. In the world's biggest research lab, where I retired from as the coordinator of contracted phenomena research the point is not to produce articles or have peer review but to produce leading science. By definition, 6.0 & 6.1 is without peers just analyst who act more as editors/promoters. The average technical article gets only ten reads. The common science text is at least a decade behind. In the case of geology make that decades. The term "metavolcanic" for which no volcano need be cited or ever found reminds me of humoral medicine.
Harnett County, NC where specimen was found.
The Harnett County, NC Crater. This specimen looks like it has been in an explosion because it has.
You can see the Harnett County Crater better with this map. Now you can figure that for a volcano if you want but I am sticking with Impact Crater. It is an old and settled crater as you can see on the earthquake map below. Feb. 5, 2025.
Beauford County, NC
The Aurora mine is the largest integrated phosphate mining and chemical plant in the world.[1] The mine is located in Richland Township, in Aurora in Beaufort County, North Carolina.
In what appears to be slag from the minging operation we have a fossil. March 14, 2025.
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Any ideas on these rocks?
Found: Auroroa, NC where phosphate is mined. So a coastal locale and dug from deep underground
Google lens says slag or meteor but both are incorrect.
Aurora touches the outer area of the circled crater which has iron or would not show up on the USGS magnetic map. Also there is what looks to be a smaller crater at Aurora. March 14, 2025.
Here is a section of iron in with the phosphate. March 14, 2025.
Plasma cavitation exposures. While you find these in streams sometimes they were not made by the water, the water just exposes them. Flint is crypto crystalline chert which is to say it has been exposed to more energy, both the energy of nano pulverization and the higher shock energy. These rocks are impact mega clast and fell here. March 24, 2025.
Geology of North Carolina
Could anyone ID the bluish stone? Found in the Haw River near jordan lake, NC.
Sorry, I mistakenly put Falls Lake. I meant Jordan. I added 1 more photo. I only took 2.
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Just for fun let's look at the common geological understanding. Seem a little bit too convoluted to you?
I am an author on some of the geologic maps in that area, and this looks like what we interpret as a resedimented hyaloclastite. That means it started as a lava that fractured into pieces as it flowed due to differences in temperature between the surfaces and interior of the lava. That lava cooled into a rock which was then lightly reworked into a conglomerate, but still maintains that sort of jigsaw fit to the clasts. The rock was later metamorphosed to greenschist facies, which still preserves the original textures. Given this looks like it is probably vitric, I would call this a tuffaceous metaconglomerate. (Resedimented hyaloclastite is more an interpretation of how it formed than an actual rock type.) The outcrop shape tells me it is a conglomerate instead of a hyaloclastic dacite because the former forms fin shaped outcrops whereas the latter forms jointed and blocky outcrops. Below is a link to a geologic map of Chatham county that compiles the 1:24k maps we did, including the ones I worked on. It includes more information about the rocks along the Haw River.
