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Johnson, G.A.L.

Soil map of the Moor House National Nature Reserve

https://doi.org/10.5285/b36357bd-988c-41fa-a3a8-3b21cef5f0b6 Cite this dataset
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

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.

Correspondence/contact details

Claire Wood
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg
Lancaster
Lancashire
LA1 4AP
UNITED KINGDOM
 enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Author

Johnson, G.A.L.
Durham University

Other contacts

Rights holder
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
Publisher
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
Owner
Natural Environment Research Council
 enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Additional metadata

Topic categories
environment
INSPIRE theme
Soil
Keywords
ECN , England , Environmental Change Network , Moor House , National Nature Reserve , North Pennines , Soil , SPA , Special Protection Area , UNESCO Biosphere Reserve , Upper Teesdale
Last updated
08 February 2024 17:38

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CITE 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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