Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

Port Gorm, North Coast.

[Site list for year 1985]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19850917/21 Date: 1985-09-17 GPS: 55.21683,-6.55600. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: Transect A (17.9.85) is across the moderately sheltered (Ascophyllum dominated) large igneous boulders to the west of Port Gorm. Below zone 4, the boulders fall away to a deep sandy pool. Transect B (18.9.85) was situated on a basalt platform in the middle of the small bay (Port Gorm) formed from 'pillow' larva. They have extensive tops which exist in the upper shore and wave splash, and relatively steep sides which occupy most of the intertidal. The exposure would vary considerably as the steep sides of the platforms are convoluted, having headland and inlets and some offshore submerged platforms. The top of the platform was extensive having flat areas in which wide shallow rockpools (dominated by Enteromorpha containing sand occur, together with small ridges with some Pelvetia. The zonation depended upon exposure.

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