Deep Peaty Soils

Deep Peaty Soils
Bare mineral soil

Deep Peaty Soils
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Peat eroding to mineral soil

Peat eroded to mineral soil

Peat eroding to bare mineral soil

Mineral soil exposed in places

Exposures of mineral soil

Some large areas of exposed mineral soil

Exposures of bare mineral soil

Restoration project?

Large areas of exposed mineral soil

Mineral soil exposed

Experimental plots?

Quarry

Much bare

Several large uncontrolled burns

Spoil tip with little vegetation - assume peat still present

Spoil tips with little vegetation - assume peat still present

This area covered in snow, difficult to categorise

Reservoir

Peat removed by burning - mineral soil exposed

Limestone pavement

Mined

Grip blocking in this area?

Bleaklow - V poor condition

no category?

some plantation but <1ha

recently felled

clear felled

Interesting burn pattern - Ulldale fells

mown

Caravan park!

Bare peat <1ha

wild fires

exposed peat possibly extraction

gullies

Largest burnt peat in this area

recently planted

Peat layer seems to miss out large areas of peat here

partially felled

This area divided by large drains though does not follow a standard gripping pattern

Ploughed?

Gullying

Evidence of peat cutting??

Man made waterbody

Buildings associated with tin mine

Old field boudaries

I'm not sure about this area

Many bell pits in this area

Tin workings possibly some peat removed

Part of extensive peat cuttings in the northern part of SX57 - v. differrent to those on Exmoor

Extensive hagging

Check this is appropriate

Birch scrub?

Erosion of thin peat layer following fire?

Difficult to determine whether this is hagging / gullying erosion of thin peat layer after fire

Perhaps this is more like erosion following fire? Some substantial but <1ha areas of bare peat

Bare mineral soil present

Exposures of mineral soil where peat has completely gone

Extensive gullying

Gullying?

Exposed mineral soil

Peat cutting?

Grouse butts?

Bare mineral soil also

Eroded to mineral soil in places

Some very large areas eroded to mineral soil

ask kath to look at this area

Mown heather?

Gulling as result of gripping (?) though grips no longer obvious

Some gullying of the grips

Much exposed mineral soil

Peat pans

Damaged - 4x4 course?

Many sub-polygons within this region are extensively gripped

Landslide?

Large areas of bare peat and bare mineral soil

Square pattern of gripping

Peat Cutting?

Much bare mineral soil visible

old plough lines

old quarry spoil covering peat

old quarry with spoil covering peat

plus wildfire?

with exposed mineral soil

Patchy areas of mown vegetation present

Large areas of mown strips present

Some bare mineral patches

Possibly mown areas for molinia control

Bare peat and mineral

Slight hagging