Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Ringfad, NE Coast.

[Site list for year 1984]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19841009/21 Date: 1984-10-09 GPS: 55.01500,-5.97300. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: A long low boulder outcrop in the form of an island attached to the mainland by a short narrow sand and pebble spit at low water. The more sheltered inner part of the peninsula next to the spit is fucoid dominated. the outer side is patellobarnacle dominated. There is a single very large rock pool on the boulder mound, and several wide shallow pools, thus giving a high algal and animal diversity. Clay outcrops were common towards the south of the boulder mound. This site was revisited.

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