Trnovo Forest Plateau
| Trnovo Forest Plateau | |
|---|---|
The Trnovo Forest Plateau seen from Vipavski Križ | |
| Highest point | |
| Coordinates | 45°57′46″N 13°52′20″E / 45.96278°N 13.87222°E |
| Geography | |
| Location | Slovenia |
| Parent range | Dinaric Alps |
The Trnovo Forest Plateau (Slovene: Trnovski gozd) is a karst plateau that constitutes the extreme northwest end of the Dinaric Alps. The Trnovo Forest Plateau has a karst character, without surface watercourses and broken up by closed valleys, outcroppings, hills, caves, shafts, and smaller karst features: solution pans, rills, karrens, and other features. Significant karst features include ice caves. The vegetation inversion at Big Paradana Ice Cave (Slovene: Velika ledena jama v Paradani) in the eastern part of the plateau, measuring 385 meters (1,263 ft) by 1,550 meters (5,090 ft), is a locus classicus and in the past ice was harvested from it and exported via Gorizia and Trieste to Egypt.
The Trnovo Forest Plateau has three nature reserves:
- Big Paradana Ice Cave
- Golak Peaks (1,495 meters or 4,905 feet) and Spruce Valley (Slovene: Smrekova draga, a karst depression)
- The Smrečje forest reserve
The southern ridge of the Trnovo Forest Plateau is Čaven.