Features
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Mount kosciuszko was formed between 355 to 490 million years ago.
Mount kosciuszko is 2,228 metres above sea level. Formed of granitic rocks in the Ordovician to Lower Devonian periods, granite rocks were uplifted, folded and eroded for a long period of time.
Great climate change has occurred in this area in the last two million years. The scattered rocks were formed when cracks in the granite was invaded and weathered by water and ice.
Mount Kosciuszko has 13 point of glaciers with the temperature staying at -6oC in the mid winter and 21o C in the summer. The glaciers are there almost all year round.
Barrington Tops is home to the Gloucester river which is on the eastern slopes of the great dividing range. The river descends 1,150 meters over its 102 kilometres.
The Gloucester river is 96 meters above sea-level, however this number is likely to decrease because of the erosion caused by the river’s movement.
As the Gloucester river moves through Barrington Tops National park, it is slowly eroding the soil.
Mount kosciuszko is 2,228 metres above sea level. Formed of granitic rocks in the Ordovician to Lower Devonian periods, granite rocks were uplifted, folded and eroded for a long period of time.
Great climate change has occurred in this area in the last two million years. The scattered rocks were formed when cracks in the granite was invaded and weathered by water and ice.
Mount Kosciuszko has 13 point of glaciers with the temperature staying at -6oC in the mid winter and 21o C in the summer. The glaciers are there almost all year round.
Barrington Tops is home to the Gloucester river which is on the eastern slopes of the great dividing range. The river descends 1,150 meters over its 102 kilometres.
The Gloucester river is 96 meters above sea-level, however this number is likely to decrease because of the erosion caused by the river’s movement.
As the Gloucester river moves through Barrington Tops National park, it is slowly eroding the soil.