Downslope is a rock face and very steep slope which apears to have similar forest type to this plot. Upslope 30 meters is a bench.;Steep slope just below a bench with an oak forest with sugar maple in the subcanopy. Most leaf litter has washed down hill exposing the shaley soil.
Representativeness
ELU 1313 (low elevation upper slope on shale). Sub-xeric forest near gorge bottom. This is an uncommon ELU, may be usefull for predicting these atypical forests for lower gorge positions.