Article by:
Ellie Griffiths
Whether you are passing through or taking a holiday in the region, there are 2,690sqkm (1,039sqmi) to be explored.
History of the Blue Mountains
Here’s the science bit. At the end of the Triassic Period – roughly 205 million years ago – various volcanic eruptions resulted in the valley being lifted. Mountains were formed by the resulting rivers and, due to the movement of the earth, the shallow sea shifted inland, depositing as it went. The deposits finished roughly 170 million years ago, but it was only around one million years ago that the mountains were formed during the Pliocene Epoch, due to a geological phenomenon known in this case as the Kosciusko Uplift. Read the full travel article here.
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