This past week, one of our professors drove us through the Atherton Tablelands highlighting different geological features of the countryside. Being on the Tablelands within the Great Dividing Range, the granite escarpments offer wonderful views (as seen from one of my recent photographs). These landforms were formed via volcanic activity, and we visited several inactive craters in the area. Blomfield Swamp, a now marshy depression where cattle graze ironically enough, was a beautiful extinct crater located not far from our site (second picture inset). The sheer beauty and diversity of the landscapes here in Queensland would be hard to match, and there is not another place on the planet I would rather be at the moment than here…
Friday, February 11, 2011
Atherton Tablelands Story
