Report to SOTEAG (Shetland Oil Terminal Environmental Advisory Group) on salt marsh monitoring around Sullom Voe in 1981

Technical Report ·

OSTI ID:5382169

Dalby, D H

A general summary of the survey work carried out on salt marshes close to Sullom Voe Oil Terminal in Shetland is given. Using transects levelled as in previous years, it is shown that there is a distinct accretion of marine sedimentary material which tends to be associated with the presence of the grass Puccinellia maritima. Any change in distribution of this material, in distribution of the grass, or in the stolon lengths of the grass was shown not to be due to the nearby oil terminal, and any oil spillages which might have occurred there. Furthermore, it is reported that damage caused in 1979 to some marsh is being repaired naturally. The results of a study initiated in 1976 to obtain figures for the accumulation of salt marsh surface, following the way in which small patches of strewn sand are affected by accretion, are given.

• Research Organization: Imperial Coll. of Science and Technology, London (UK)
• OSTI ID: 5382169
• Report Number(s): PB-83-257212
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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