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Trees and Questions. I have questions for Scots.

I was also told there is a site, but cannot remember, being somewhat Ragged by now.
There are what may be described as sticks at Porlock Weir SS8648, Exmoor, I have seen some somewhere myself south of the Border, Long Time, there are many that suffer reservoir rises and lake flows and Gloucestershire is covered in river plains that have inundation of trees who seem to be quite happy year after year. Much has fallen from East Anglia to Devon in the last months, but the dread Haldon Hill, Derek Harper, A380 SX9082 collapse of newly planted stands of the 1960s did not occur, they lost some in the winds in the shallow Greensand Soils. Tree root depth and spread of anchor is said to be critical, Ron Sidwell (Cheltenham and Kew) John Josephi (RCA) so what makes a tree survive salt I believe is in the manner of uptake and fluid mechanics of the bark and xylem. Institute of Hydrology, Arid and Semi-arid zone researchers have something on this, salt filtering and hydrostatic stress. You get strange tree arrangements around oases and next to coast lagoons. Brian E. and James A. would be furious with me for forgetting this. Another red mark on degree papers for a Hydrology graduate. Read some of the African and desert salt pan papers, they seem to have better answers and Mangrove explains some of it, but they are trees for salt tolerance in the root.

Further thoughts and a cross reference to SU1393
Jonathan's excellent photograph near Swindon:

OK Comedian!, but I can see a water pool and I will warrant that has some compact and sediment washed soils,
as well as the hedge etc. The advantage is for a Soil Scientist that even a flat desert has variation. We can find features in plain sand deposits.

Good photograph, it describes your Title very well, better than Somerset Levels, they are full of mounds and bumps and "featureless" ditches full of several hedgerow and much species in plant.
Is this one of the sites Swindon wishes to turn into a featureless desert housing estate, or flat soccer ground ?

There is a field here, Portishead, 1982 that I referred to Sheila Ross 1983 as mentioned previously and noted by another writer, that is equally flat and has water ponds at wet weather, presumed by myself to be making and reacting to a soil difference: clays. It is these that then cause flow ditches and basins and set up the next phase of landscape, as on hillside moorland erosion and watershed.

Writing of Scots and Questions on trees in sea water and osmosis and short term flows that do not get past the air entrapped in the soil and salts that are kept out by preceding water in pore space, Sheila was not so keen on my appreciation of Pethick, soils in Scotland and forestry, but it is worth looking at as a read on soil variations and montane areas can be quite featureless when they all look the same rolling back into the haze.

Thanks for the photograph and comment. Mike