HOST Class 24

Geology:

fine to medium textured lodgement till (formerly boulder clay), glaciolacustrine and estuarine deposits.

Landforms:

undulating till plains with occasional drumlin swarms, till embayments and some steep sided valleys. Gently undulating or level. The estuarine silts and clays form a specific and distinct landform associated with the Rivers Tay, Forth and Cree and are known as the Carse lands.

Soils:

non-calcareous mineral gleys with wetness class III or IV.

Vegetation:

cultivated with arable and dairying being a prominent farming system in the lowlands, locally, semi-natural Molinia grassland, rush pasture, broadleaved woodland and conifer plantation.