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HOST Class 19

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Geology:
hard, coherent rock within one metre of the soil surface.
Landforms:
undulating, glacially scoured lowlands, in the high undulating mountain plateaux, and on summits with shallow frost-shattered debris and patterned ground. A wide range of slopes from gentle to very steep, but the land is invariably rocky or bouldery with well developed roches moutonnees in the Machars of Wigtonshire.
Soils:
freely drained brown earths, humus-iron podzols, subalpine soils and alpine soils (oroarctic soils).
Vegetation:
some mixed arable and dairy farming but mainly semi-natural grassland and moorland with occasional areas of broadleaved woodland and conifer plantations in the lowlands. Alpine azalea, lichens and sedges on the mountain tops.
Flow:
flow is vertical unsaturated flow with some lateral flow along the soil/rock interface.
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