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X.—Water Movements in the Firth of Forth*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

R. E. Craig
R. E. Craig
Affiliation:
Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen.
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Even a superficial attempt to record the earlier studies on the Firth of Forth brings out the importance of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in supporting research on the underlying principles of estuarine water conditions.

My bibliography starts with the Transactions of that society for 1816, though it is not until 1884, with the studies of H. R. Mill, that we come to work which is really useful to our present purpose. Mill worked from a floating laboratory at Granton Sea Quarry. He carried out twice-daily observations at the Quarry, and systematic observations over a long period at 12 stations in mid-Firth, from Alloa to the Isle of May, and also at several points on the south coast. He reports on variations (largely seasonal) in temperature and on density as an index of salinity, and on the alkalinity of the water. These latter, of course, vary largely with the river inflow, which has a rather imprecise correlation with season.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences , Volume 71 , Issue 2-4 , 1972 , pp. 131 - 135
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1972

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This paper was assisted in publication by a grant from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.

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