Hydrology of Soil Types
Introduction
HOST Classification
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.