White Patch | ||
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50 20.72N 50 20.73N |
04.09.81W 04 07.72W |
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50 20.67N 50 20.60N |
04 07.57W 04 07.73W |
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Location description (1957) |
White Patch (2-4 fm.). Close in under Staddon Heights, off Rams Cliff Point, a fine muddy sand is sometimes profitably worked, either with a D-net or with a dredge covered with stramin. After the mud is washed out and the finer fraction of sand isolated, Elphidium (=Polystomella) may appear in numbers. Several small crustaceans live in the surface layer of this deposit, including species of Ampelisca, Pontocrates arenarius, Diastylis laevis, etc. Nassarius reticulatus occurs freely on the surface, while the lamellibranchs Phaxas pellucidus, Syndosmya alba, and Thyasira flexuosa burrow into the substratum. Slightly farther offshore the sand is replaced by black mud inhabited by Myxicola. |
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Updated information | No updated information |
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Species List | No information available. |