Barrington Tops State Conservation Area is a protected area in the Australian state of New South Wales in the Barrington Tops region. It was previously known as the Polblue and Barrington Tops Crown Reserves. The conservation area was created in January 2003. It covers an area of 8,446 hectares.[1] Unlike the adjacent national park mining is allowed in a State Conservation Area.[2]Zircon, sapphire and rubies were formed from the nearby Barrington Volcano in the Eocene epoch.[3]
Gondwana Rainforests, extend to Queensland in the southeast to the Barrington Tops northwest of Newcastle. 270 endangered plant and animal species can be found in it.[4]
Referencesedit
^"Barrington Tops State Conservation Area". NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service. Office of Environment & Heritage. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
^"Barrington Tops National Park, Mount Royal National Park, and Barrington Tops State Conservation Area Plan of Management" (PDF). National Parks & Wildlife Service. NSW Government. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
^F. L. Sutherland, C. M. Fanning (2001). "Gem‐bearing basaltic volcanism, Barrington, New South Wales: Cenozoic evolution, based on basalt K–Ar ages and zircon fission track and U–Pb isotope dating". Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 48 (2): 221–237. Bibcode:2001AuJES..48..221S. doi:10.1046/j.1440-0952.2001.00851.x.
^Coast, Barrington (20 May 2020). "Barrington Tops". Barrington Coast. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
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