Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Whitechurch, Outer Ards.

[Site list for year 1986]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19860509/21 Date: 1986-05-09 GPS: 54.55583,-5.47600. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: A fairly wide sandy beach between scattered rock outcrops, mostly composed of fine and medium sand. One of the offshore rock ridge platforms is a seal haul out. The lower shore supports large numbers of Lanice (greater than 100 per sq. metre), and there are about 30 Arenicola casts per sq. metre throughout the intertidal. The sediment contains shell gravel on the lower shore and is hard packed on the upper part of the transect.

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