Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Campbeltown, NE Coast.

[Site list for year 1986]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19860324/21 Date: 1986-03-24 GPS: 55.00000,-5.98700. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: The shore is a moderately exposed, fucoid dominated area, with three main substrate types. The majority of the intertidal from LW to the upper shore (HWN) is a flat red sandstone platform, with near parallel gullies perpendicular to the shore line. These contain large rock pools, which become larger forming small inlets at lower water. The extreme upper shore and supralittoral is on the base of a steeply sloping road embankment of cemented basalt boulders with storm tossed basalt boulders at its base. The biota is fucoid dominated although Patella and few barnacles dominate the unstable upper shore boulder habitat. Much of the lower shore platform is covered by sand binding to mat forming algae. Many of the rock pools in the lower shore had sandy bottoms although those sand free appeared rich for algae.

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