Age
The age of the Carolina bays is constrained by a variety of dating techniques, as predating the end of the Pleistocene by ten of thousands to over a hundred thousand years. The techniques, which demonstrate a preterminal Pleistocene age for the Carolina bays, are radiocarbon dating, optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating, and palynology.
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