The Cumberland Plain, also known as Cumberland Basin, is a relatively flat region lying to the west of Sydney CBD in New South Wales, Australia. An IBRA biogeographic region, Cumberland Basin is the preferred physiographic and geological term for the low-lying plain of the Permian-Triassic Sydney Basin found between Sydney and the Blue Mountains, and it is a structural sub-basin of the Sydney Basin.
Typical savannah-like, grassy woodlands in the plain.
An aerial view of the urbanized plain in western Sydney, which is encircled by a series of plateaus.
Podzolic soil at a Western Sydney nature reserve
The Parramatta River is the most prominent river that flows within the Cumberland Plain.
The Sydney Basin is an interim Australian bioregion and is both a structural entity and a depositional area, now preserved on the east coast of New South Wales, Australia and with some of its eastern side now subsided beneath the Tasman Sea. The basin is named for the city of Sydney, on which it is centred.
The majority of Sydney Basin is raised sandstone plateau, with the exception being the Hunter Valley and the low-lying Cumberland Plain.
The Prospect dolerite intrusion in Greater Western Sydney
