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Dalaradia Point, Larne Lough.

[Site list for year 1986]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19860906/21 Date: 1986-09-06 GPS: 54.81900,-5.77500. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: A sheltered headland of small and medium boulders and stones within Larne Lough. The upper shore and middle shores have boulders on muddy sand and gravel with barnacle domination and fucoids in the upper shore. The lower shore has stones on mud with the occasional fucoid. Fresh water seeps onto the middle and lower shore and provides a richer sub habitat from several algal species. The water was very turbid due to the muddy shallow bottom. A cement factory occurred nearby. The bay which is adjacent to the headland has a well defined fucoid/Ascophyllum zonation on boulders in the mid and upper shores illustrating a possibility of sand scour or light reduction on the headland. The shore was backed by woodland which extended from the supralittoral illustrating the sheltered nature of the shore, and providing organic leaf litter in the sediment.

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