Towards river is a younger sycamore forest (this penninsula is mapped as nonforested on topographic map) about twice as wide as this zone, with recent alluvial deposits, less litter but more wrack, and less shrub cover. Uphill is a steep bank up to an old roadbed, now the trail.;Upper alluvial terrace which was above flood zone from this springs high water. Microtopography of undulating swales and levees running paralell to the river. Forest dominated by sycamore with scattered tulip poplar and a lush shrub layer.
Representativeness
ELU 1333 (gorge slope bottom on shale). Upper floodplain terrace about as wide as plot.