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Blue Mountains and Southern Highlands Basalt Forests
Landscape in the Blue Mountains National Park
Ecology
RealmAustralasia
BiomeTemperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Borders
List
  • Cumberland Plain Woodland
  • Southern Tablelands Temperate Grassland
  • Southern Highlands Shale Forest and Woodland
  • Central Hunter Valley eucalypt forest and woodland
  • Shale Sandstone Transition Forest
  • Blue Mountains Shale Cap Forest
Geography
Area100 km2 (39 sq mi)
CountryAustralia
Elevation750–1,100 metres (2,460–3,610 ft)
Coordinates34°12′S 150°17′E / 34.2°S 150.28°E / -34.2; 150.28
GeologyBasalt
Climate typeOceanic climate (Cfb)
Soil typesBasalt, minor clay

The Blue Mountains and Southern Highlands Basalt Forests are a sclerophyll temperate forest community that stretch from the northern fringes of the Blue Mountains to the Southern Highlands in New South Wales, Australia.[1] Featuring both wet and dry sclerophyll forests, as well as small rainforest pockets, the community features tall (30m+) and open eucalypt forests and woodlands that lie on igneous rock (Blue Mountains Basalts).[2][3]

Rainforests of the Blue Mountains, which cover just 1% of the area, feature the descendants of the forests that used to cover the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana.[4]

  1. ^ Blue Mountains Basalt Forest in the Sydney Basin Bioregion - profile Office of Environment & Heritage. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  2. ^ Proposed description of Wet Sclerophyll Basalt Forests of the Sydney Basin Bioregion Ecological Community Office of Environment & Heritage. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  3. ^ Blue Mountains Basalt Forest in the Sydney Basin Bioregion - profile Office of Environment & Heritage by NSW Government. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  4. ^ Biodiversity - vegetation - Rainforests by Kate Hammill & Liz Tasker. Blue Mountains nature. Retrieved 10 July 2023.

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