Strip mine landscape includes 3 physiognomies, this pine plantation type, herbaceous types, and black locust-autumn olive woodlands. See plots 287 and 289.;Linear pine plantation along the edge of the flat strip mine reclamation plain with the steep sideslope. The pine is growing on a man made shoulder slope (mound) along a ditch. Geology mapped as sandstone but mine spoils result in shales at surface. Substrate pH seems to be elevated compared to typical sterile sandstone plateau top.
Representativeness
ELU 2214 (flat summit on sandstone plateau). Linear strip mine pine plantation.