Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Carrick More, North Coast.

[Site list for year 1985]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19850406/21 Date: 1985-04-06 GPS: 55.21683,-6.17000. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: The transect site is on the eastern boundary of the sandstone platform which stretches for 200 m along the foreshore to the east of Carrick-more Island. The sandstone platform is divided into three distinct levels at the transect site, but not along the whole length of the platform. At the head of the upper level is a line of boulders with a highly developed lichen flora. The upper sandstone platform itself is above the littoral zone - it holds water-filled hollows and is criss-crossed by channels holding freshwater inflows. It is mottled by Hydropunctaria maura (originally recorded as Verrucaria maura) on its surface. The freshwater pools and channels hold large gammarids, Ligia, chironomid larvae in tubes and blue-green and green algae including Phormidium mats, Rivularia, Ulva instestinalis (originally recorded as Enetromorpha intestinalis and Ulothrix spp.

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