Hydrological Study - Sovereign Base Areas Cyprus

Consulting CYPRUS
both sides, located within the relict spits the deposits comprise much coarser grained
material, typically consisting of sands and gravels.
During the field visit on 11 November 2011, soil samples were collected from the Salt
Lake. At that time, due to the fact that a car got stuck in the lake, a bulldozer
excavated an access road, giving us the opportunity to have a clear cross section of
the salt lake (Figure 19 - 23).
Table 4: Description of the composition of the sediments in the three visible layers.
Depth below
surface (cm)
Description Interpretation
0 – 7cm Silty fine grained sands Lacustrine deposit
7 – 20cm Brown-grey Silty sands with shells
and some clay
Figure 11
Lacustrine deposit
Figures11 and 12
20 - 150cm Light fey clays and dark grey silts Lacustrine deposit
Figures 12 and 13
These three layers are considered as recent alluvium. The top layer was obviously
grey fine grained sands with the presence of a small percentage of silt. The middle
layer can be described as brown-grey silty sands with the presence of shells and clay.
This layer macroscopically is obvious due to its brown colour. The lower layer is
characterized by layers of light grey clays and dark grey silts.
From the boundary between these brown-grey sands and the lower layer which is
consisted of silts and clays the team collected a water sample which was analyzed.
This is due to the fact that water moves easily in the sand particles and flow above
the clay-silt layer surface.
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