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HOST Class 6
- Geology:
- loamy textured drift underlain by porous rocks such as sandstones. They are found throughout the lowlands of Scotland but most extensively in the east, Caithness and Sutherland.
- Landforms:
- the landforms associated with this class are highly variable from undulating non-rocky lowlands, valley sides and hilltops. The land has a wide range of slopes and is occasionally rocky and there are also localised areas of moundy moraine. The class ranges in altitude from virtually sea level to around 700 m.
- Soils:
- freely drained (wetness class I) brown earths and humus-iron podzols with some subalpine podzols.
- Vegetation:
- ranges from cultivated arable land in the lowlands through heather moorland, rough grasslands and semi-natural woodland.
- Flow:
- microporous with by-pass flow common along major structural cracks.