Acorn CO2 Storage Site brought to life at Wild About Aden 2024
(All photo credits: Hannah Milne)
On Tuesday 09 July the sun was out for the Wild About Aden festival at Aden Country Park, but so were the dinosaurs, sea monsters and asteroids from the Rock Doctor’s geological journey.
The action-packed event involved a 2.8km journey covering 145 million years of geological history, exploring how rocks buried deep below the North Sea seabed off the North East Coast of Scotland could help Britain’s top Geo-Scientists (Rock Doctors) meet the urgent global climate challenge.
Families from across the Buchan area were guided back through geological time by an expert ‘Rock Doctor’ working on the Acorn CO2 Transport and Storage Project. They were encouraged to take part in ‘RockStar Challenges’, learn fascinating facts and handle genuine rock and fossil samples along the way.
The trainee Rock Doctors jumped back a mere 145 million years to start their journey in a layer of rock known as the Kimmeridge Clay, located just below the Acorn CO2 Storage Site.
At the journey’s end, the trainee Rock Doctors had to put all their geological training to the test to identify the different layers of sealing and buffer rocks above the Acorn CO2 Storage Site, before collecting their Rock Star prizes and having the chance to talk to representatives from both Acorn and the Scottish Cluster.
