Soil map of the Moor House National Nature Reserve
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This is a digital soil map of the Moor House - Upper Teesdale National Nature Reserve. Mapped polygons represent a range of soil types. The site lies in the North Pennine uplands of England and has an area of 74 km2. It is England's highest and largest terrestrial National Nature Reserve (NNR), a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and a European Special Protection Area. Habitats include exposed summits, extensive blanket peatlands, upland grasslands, pastures, hay meadows and deciduous woodland. Altitude ranges from 290 to 850 m. Moor House - Upper Teesdale is part of the Environmental Change Network (ECN) whcih is the UK's long-term environmental monitoring programme.
Publication date: 1963-01-01
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Agrosto - Festucetum Calcareous springs Calluneto - Eriophoretum Eriophoretum Eroding bog Festucetum Flushed gleys Juncetum squarrosus sa Nardetum sub-alpinum Pteridietum Recolonised peat Sphagneto - Caricetum alpinum Sphagneto - Juncetum effusi Trichophoro - Eriophoretum Sandstone scree Made ground Red brown limestone Peaty podzol Peaty gley Fell top podzol Brown earth Blanket bog Valley bog Coarse scree Peaty gley - Peaty podzol Peaty podzol - Brown earth Solifluxion creep Eroded blanket peat Mixed bottom lands Made ground River Tees Unsurveyed Alluvial fan Freshwater alluvuium Limestone upper Limestone middle Limestone lower Limestone Sandstone Basement group Skiddaw slate series Quartz dolerite Water
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Format
File geodatabase (gdb)
Spatial information
Study area
Spatial representation type
Vector
Spatial reference system
WGS 84
Temporal information
Temporal extent
… to 1963-01-01
Provenance & quality
This map was originally created in 1963 by G.A.L Johnson from methods outlined in Soil Map Of the Moor House National Nature Reserve (1963), Westmorland. Soil Survey for the Nature Conservancy by GAL Johnson in The Geology of Moor House, a National Nature Reserve in north-east Westmorland / Johnson G.A.L., Dunham K.C., Monographs of the Nature Conservancy (No.2) 1963, HMSO. It was digitized at the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Monks Wood in the late 1990s.
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This dataset is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence 
Cite this dataset as:
Johnson, G.A.L. (1963). Soil map of the Moor House National Nature Reserve. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/b36357bd-988c-41fa-a3a8-3b21cef5f0b6
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Soil, vegetation and geology maps of the Moor House National Nature Reserve WMS
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Wood, C.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg
Lancaster
Lancashire
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UNITED KINGDOM
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Lancaster
Lancashire
LA1 4AP
UNITED KINGDOM
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Natural Environment Research Council
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