Flora and Fauna of Jersey
Streams drain the island, through valleys, largely running from north to south, which shelter woodland and wet meadows, whilst the north, west, and southwest cliffs support a range of heathland habitats of European importance. Atlantic Dunes facing west
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Our Landscape began as a Tropical desert, Volcanic rocks were eroded by violent flash floods then Reform as conglomerate, 'Pudding stone'. Those rounded pebbles of volcanic rocks were cemented together with red dessert sand- (sedimentary rocks). These times over half of Jersey's land surface is used for some form of agriculture, rich from the nutrients, inherited from evolution of time. Over the last 400 years Dunes makeup a large a significant portion of St Ouen's Bay area regarded also of international importance for their flora and invertebrate fauna.