Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Peggy's Hole, North Coast.

[Site list for year 1985]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19850404/21 Date: 1985-04-04 GPS: 55.21683,-6.56300. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: The site is a fucoid dominated (igneous) boulder filled gully between large finger-like outcrops which protrude into the sea. The intertidal region is narrow; the gully is the only place where the wide area of supralittoral boulders reaches the sea. Shelter provided by the rock outcrops probably accounts for the fucoid domination of an otherwise exposed shore. A freshwater inflow affects the eastern margin of the transect site. The zones are difficult to differentiate - they tend to run into one another, perhaps because of the narrow intertidal. Estimates of zone heights are therefore approximate.

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