Hydrology of Soil Types
Introduction
HOST Classification
HOST Class 15
- Geology:
- hummocky and slope moraines, coarse to medium textured till. Soft rock geologies.
- Landforms:
- valley maraines depressional and receiving sites, ice-scoured landscapes with rock knolls and pockets of drift, some stepped topography, footslopes, till embayments, spring lines and concave slopes.
- Soils:
- peaty gley, peaty podzols and peaty rankers on porous rock types (wetness class V and VI).
- Vegetation:
- permanent and rush pastures, commercial forestry, bog heather moorland and molinia grassland, flush sites with mosses, rushes and sedges.