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Other similar phenomena are found in coastal North Carolina, also called Seneca Guns, and in the Ganges valley of India, called Barisol Guns, as well as other sundry parts of the world. North Carolinians say their booms are the sound of pieces of the continental shelf falling off into the Atlantic abyss (but there is no geological evidence to support this). One oft-advanced explanation is natural gas from decaying vegetation trapped beneath the lake bottoms suddenly bursting forth. This is plausible, since Cayuga and Seneca are two of the world's larger and deepest lakes. However, the most frequent objection to this explanation is that such gas bubbles often burst into flame upon contact with the air and no such visible phenomenon has ever been reported in conjunction with the Guns of the Seneca. A more likely explanation is the explosive release of less volatile gases generated as limestone decays in underwater caves. Current residents of the area around the lakes, given to less grandiose but no less picturesque descriptions than the Haudenosaunee and early white settlers, refer to the eruptions as "lake farts". EXTERNAL LINK |
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