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Brown earth under ploughed field near Luncarty | © Lorne Gill / Scottish Natural Heritage
Peat erosion in an upland blanket bog in the Grampian mountains | © Lorne Gill / Scottish Natural Heritage
Foxtail cotton grass in Kirkconnell Flow NNR | © Lorne Gill / Scottish Natural Heritage
Raised bog on Flanders Moss NNR | © Lorne Gill / Scottish Natural Heritage
Ranker and peaty gley soils in Cnoc and Lochan landscape on the Lewisian platform in South East Harris | © Lorne Gill / Scottish Natural Heritage
Soil being eroded out of a ploughed field | © Lorne Gill / Scottish Natural Heritage
Soil biodiversity: What lies below our feet | © Scottish Natural Heritage
Soil erosion in a cultivated gley soil field | © Lorne Gill / Scottish Natural Heritage
Soil gully erosion in a cultivated gley soil | © Lorne Gill / Scottish Natural Heritage
Soil type & land use: A tractor ploughing gley soil | © Lorne Gill / Scottish Natural Heritage
Soil type & land use: Commercial peat cutting machinery | © Lorne Gill / Scottish Natural Heritage
Soil type & land use: Commercial peat cutting on a raised bog | © Lorne Gill / Scottish Natural Heritage
Soil type & land use: Potato furrows on brown earth in Perthshire | © Lorne Gill / Scottish Natural Heritage
Soil type & land use: Soil in the city – allotment near Perth | © Lorne Gill / Scottish Natural Heritage
Soil type & land use: Soil sealing and man-made soils near Glasgow | © Lorne Gill / Scottish Natural Heritage
Soil type & land use: Soil sealing on a building site | © Lorne Gill / Scottish Natural Heritage
Soil type & vegetation: Alluvial soils in the meanders of the River Derry in Glen Derry | © Lorne Gill / Scottish Natural Heritage
Soil type & vegetation: Alpine soil and podzols in Ben Lawers NNR | © Lorne Gill / Scottish Natural Heritage
Soil type & vegetation: Organic soil and Blanket Bog in the Flow Country | © Steve Moore / Scottish Natural Heritage
Soil type & vegetation: Podzol and heather moorland | © Lorne Gill / Scottish Natural Heritage
Soil type & vegetation: Regosol and wind patterned vegetation in the Cairngorm mountains | © Lorne Gill / Scottish Natural Heritage
Soil type & vegetation: Sandy soils on the Machair at Gallanach on the Isle of Coll | © Lorne Gill / Scottish Natural Heritage
A soil core| © Lorne Gill / Scottish Natural Heritage
Taking a soil core | © Lorne Gill / Scottish Natural Heritage