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Carbon and peatland 2016 map | Scottish Natural Heritage |
All other map layers | James Hutton Institute |
This shows the distribution of the main soil types across the whole of Scotland. It was originally mapped at the 1: 250 000 scale.
×This covers most of Scotland’s cultivated agricultural soils and adjacent uplands. It was originally mapped at the 1: 25 000 scale and shows more detail than the National soil map of Scotland.
×World Reference Base soil map uses an international soil classification based on soil characteristics, properties and horizons (layers).
×The national scale land capability for forestry map provides information on how well a piece of land could grow trees based on a number of factors including soil, climate and topography.
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×The national scale land capability for agriculture map provides information on the types of crops that may be grown in different areas dependent on environmental and soil characteristics.
×The land capability map for agriculture (partial cover) provides information at a greater resolution than the national map on the types of crops that may be grown in different areas dependent on the environmental and soil characteristics.
×Shows the soil carbon concentration in the surface layer of soil.
×Available water capacity is the amount water a soil can provide for plants and so is a useful indicator of the ability of soils to grow crops.
×Soil texture in Nitrate Vulnerable Zones provides information to help understand what management practices can be performed, and when, within Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs).
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×Shows the distribution of carbon and peatland classes across the whole of Scotland. It gives a value to indicate the likely presence of carbon-rich soils, deep peat and priority peatland habitat for each individually-mapped area, at a coarse scale.
×Shows the sampling locations of the National Soil Inventory of Scotland, classified by the soil type found at each location.
×Shows the soil parent material found at each National Soil Inventory of Scotland sampling location. This is the material that the soil was made from.
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×Shows the location of each National Soil Inventory of Scotland sampling point. The colour of the symbol relates to the lead concentration of the topsoil found at that point (in parts per million of air-dried soil).
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×Shows the location of each National Soil Inventory of Scotland sampling point. The colour of the symbol relates to the zinc concentration of the topsoil found at that point (in parts per million of air-dried soil).
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×Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) has prepared a consolidated spatial dataset of peat depth measurement collected across Scotland. The information was collected during peat depth surveys conducted as part of various assessments carried out on sites that formed part of the Peatland ACTION project (2012-2017).
×This map shows the inherent ability of soil to retain phosphorus (P) - the P sorption capacity (PSC). The classification is based on properties of the soil which relate to the soil association to which it belongs.
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