Soil Patterns In The Landscape - Soil Sampling in the Fettercairn Area 1

... Soils Land And The Environment Practical - Soil Patterns In The Landscape Exercise 2 - Soil Sampling in the Fettercairn Area 1 Points C and D This exercise aims to examine four contrasting sites in the Fettercairn area. Each of the site localities will be identified eg. Land use, parent soil type, local topography etc, and then cross-referenced to the soil profile. The four sites chosen are listed as follows: Site Number Land Use Location Grid Reference 1 Wooded Hunters Hill 664 764 2 Lowland SW of Mill of Kincardine 670 759 3 Agriculture Fountainhead - NNE of Home Farm 647 762 4 Upland Moor Brunt Hill 631 771 Point E F and G Site 1 The first site, Hunters Hill is a woodland area, located on the top of a hill elevated at 125 - 240 meters above sea level. This altitude means that the soils microclimate will be much cooler than the other lowland sites and so will receive less weathering, mainly by chemical and biological means, of parent material. There will be

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