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HOST Class 7

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Soil profileLandscape

Geology:
mid terrace alluvial deposits.
Landforms:
gently undulating mid terraces away from the river in the lowlands or, as in many Highland glens, on outwash alluvial fans of coarse textured sand and gravel deposits.
Soils:
immature free and imperfectly drained, coarse textured alluvial soils (wetness class I-Ill).
Flow:
these soils are underlain by a fluctuating groundwater table generally within two metres.
Related Staff

Related staff 

Allan Lilly [1]

1. External link title 

The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute

1. External link 

http://www.macaulay.ac.uk/

2. External link title 

National Soil Resources Institute

2. External link 

http://www.silsoe.cranfield.ac.uk/nsri/

3. External link title 

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

3. External link 

http://www.ceh.ac.uk/
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Links:
[1] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/staff/allan-lilly