The Cliefden Caves is a heritage-listed geoheritage site in Mandurama, Cowra Shire, New South Wales, Australia. The caves comprise Ordovician fossil localities, limestone caves, a spring and tufa dams, and a site where limestone was first discovered in inland Australia.[2]
It has been ranked among the 70 most significant fossil sites in Australia by the Australian Heritage Council (2012)[3] and as the thirteenth most significant limestone cave site in Australia by Davey.[4] The site was nominated to the Register of the National Estate by the Geological Society of Australia in the late 1970s and registered in 1987.[5] It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 30 August 2017.[2]
^"Planning and Environment Notices" (PDF). New South Wales Government - Legislation. 30 August 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 December 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
^ ab"Cliefden Caves Area - Natural and Cultural Landscape". New South Wales State Heritage Register. Department of Planning & Environment. H01996. Retrieved 2 June 2018. Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC-BY 4.0 licence.
^Australian Heritage Council. 2012. Australia's Fossil Heritage: a catalogue of important Australian fossil Sites. Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing
^DAVEY, A.G. 1984. Evaluation criteria for the cave and karst heritage of Australia-Report of the Australian Speleological Federation National Heritage Assessment Study. Helictite 15(2): 3-40
^"Cliefden Caves (Place ID 958)". Australian Heritage Database. Australian Government. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
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