| Located close to Lund, Söderåsen is one of the most beautiful national parks in Skåne. It is a horst - a block of rock that was trusted up by two steep-angled fault blocks, while the land around it subsided - that has resulted during the past 200 million years, when a series of faults developed in the bedrock of Skåne.
The park's impressive landscape is characterised by steep valleys (tallus slopes), edgy rocks (i.e. 'gneiss') and abundant vegetation, which have resulted during at least for ice ages. Despite the predominant broad-leaved forest, even today the park displays many traces of a former tundra climate. The coloration of the forest in autumn in incredible: while the plateau above the fissure valleys is dominated by moss-lichen forest and beech trees, the forest on the slopes include birch, oak, rowan and linden. Since the dead trees are not removed from the forest, a natural ecosystem has specialised in making use of the trunks. For instance, one of the nicest picture features a 'family of white, glowing mushrooms' in a serious pose above a river. Another picture shows a purple mushroom of a kind that I have never seen before. |
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