With more work it may be possible to compare periodicities in South Carolina with those from the Gulf Coast. Future Research Continue to examine the cores we already have from Singleton Swash. Core one or more coastal ponds within a 50 km radius of Singleton to enlarge on what we observed already. Piggybacking on existing projects of other researchers, start pilot projects in Galveston and Rhode Island coastal ponds to match the sponsor's target areas. Photo of core 6 from Singleton Swash showing where samples were taken for C-14 dating and future intervals for dating.
Yellow lines indicate where there are storm events.
The red species are marsh species presently living there. In the interval just below the 1400ybp date is an oyster layer where calcareous species were living, not a storm event. Photo of core 15 indicating dates and storm events similar to Figure 2. The long interval below the 1800ybp date with calcareous species is an oyster layer. The large sand layers dated at 5000ybp indicate storms much larger than anything we have seen historically-the foraminifera here indicate that at that time the coastline would have been several miles seaward of where it is now and a storm that put sand layers like those seen in Figure 4 would have been immense.