HOST Classification

HOST Class 27

Geology:

thin drift on hard, coherent rock.

Landforms:

steep, almost vertical rock walls and corries, steep slopes with very thin drift and rock outcrops, stepped and terraced topography with short, steep rocky crags, ice-moulded rock knolls in an undulating lowland of peat flats and black, dubh lochans.

Soils:

peaty rankers.

Vegetation:

semi-natural vegetation, coarse grassland and heather moorland.

Flow:

rapid surface runoff.

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