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Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology; 1989; v. 22; issue.2; p. 145-150;
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.QJEG.1989.022.02.06
© 1989 Geological Society of London

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Groundwater near the Moray Firth: the coastal aquifer between Forres and Elgin, Grampian Region

N. S. Robins, J. M. Cook & D. L. Miles

Hydrogeology Research Group, British Geological Survey, , Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX10 8BB, UK

Old Red Sandstone, Permian, Triassic and Quaternary deposits form a coastal aquifer to the south of the Moray Firth between Elgin and Forres. Evidence from exploratory drilling, borehole geophysics and hydrogeochemistry show that the aquifer is a complex layered system containing young slightly mineralized water in cracks and joints, older more mineralized water in intergranular storage and mineralized water confined at depth by clay horizons.