Skip links and keyboard navigation

Queensland Government

WetlandInfo

— Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation

Site navigation

You are here:

Home
Ecology
Wetland systems (aquatic ecosystems)
Groundwater dependent ecosystems
BlueBottle Spring
Groundwater Dependant Ecocsystems (GDEs)

What are wetlands?

Assessment, monitoring and inventory

Cycles, spheres, energy and connectivity

Plants, animals, soils, water and more (components)

How wetlands function (processes)

Wetland systems (aquatic ecosystems)

Intertidal and subtidal (estuarine and marine) ecology

Groundwater dependent ecosystems

Alluvia—overview

Alluvia—upper catchment

Alluvia—mid-catchment

Alluvia—lower catchment

Alluvia—closed drainage systems

Alluvia—modified (dams)

Alluvia—recharge process (inundation)

Canal estates (brackish)

Canal estates (estuarine)

Catchment constrictions

Coastal sand masses (high dunes)

Coastal sand masses (beach ridges)

Inland sand ridges

Fractured rocks

Lower Balonne alluvial floodplain

Wind-blown inland sand dunefields

Low-lying coastal swamps

Permeable rocks

BlueBottle Spring

Sedimentary rocks (Great Artesian Basin)

Sedimentary rocks (Clarence-Moreton Basin)

Silkstone Formation

Spring ecosystems of the Surat and southern Bowen Basins

Petrie Formation along the shoreline of Moreton Bay

Goondoola Basin

Exclusion zones

High-level alluvia

Aquifers and caves

BlueBottle Spring

BlueBottle Spring – Groundwater Dependant Ecocsystems (GDEs)

Hydrogeology
Ecology

Click on elements of the model or select from the tabs below

Last updated: 10 April 2017

This page should be cited as:

Queensland Government, Queensland (2017) BlueBottle Spring – Groundwater Dependant Ecocsystems (GDEs), WetlandInfo website, accessed 12 April 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/aquatic-ecosystems-natural/groundwater-dependent/bluebottle-spring/gdes.html