This woodland grows around the edges of large herbaceous openings (plot 287) and along the road through the strip mine.;Edge of stripmine reclamation with early successional woodland with many exotics. Flat terrace created by mining. Substrate (soil) described as sandy loam, may be more typical plateau residual sandstone compared to shaly substrate in plots 288, 287.
Representativeness
ELU 222 (south side slope on sandstone). Stripmine woodland.