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Walking through the Petrified Forest National Park

Cappadocia, Rock Hoodoo, Photographer, Famous Place, Turkey - Middle East

Scenic viewpoint in the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona United States

The colourful rocks of Painted Desert National Park, Arizona

The scenery of Badlands National Park in summer, South Dakota

Mother and Son Hiking in Badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada. It is a beautiful summer sunny day. They are bonding while hiking in the park’s footpath.

Summer scenery at Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota, USA

This is a horizontal photo of the salt mountains and terrain in Death Valley National Park, CA.

The Painted Desert on a sunny day. Diverse sedimentary rocks and clay washed out by water. Petrified Forest National Park, USA, Arizona

Cappadocia, Rock Hoodoo, Photographer, Famous Place, Turkey - Middle East

De-na-zin wilderness area, Bisti badlands, New Mexico

The colourful rocks of Painted Desert National Park, Arizona

Overlook at the River Bend in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota. Little Missouri River causing the erosion into Badlands.

Blue Mesa trail in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA.

Tiponi Abyss in Petrified Forest AZ in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, United States

Wide open landscape within the painted desert. Badland beauty within Petrified Forest national park.

Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Blue Mesa Scenic Trail, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA

Cliffs and detritus rockfall in the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona United States

Visitors hike on a guided tour, open to the public, of the Corral Bluffs Open Space badlands in Colorado Springs, Colorado on a beautiful fall day on October, 2, 2021. A visitor holds a fragile fossil leaf from the area. The geology of the area spans the million years after the dinosaur extinction and houses world renowned, rare, full mammal skulls and numerous tropical vertebrate and plant fossils from 66 million years ago.

Landscape and panorama of erosive multi-colored clay in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

Badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada.

Vista Near Panorama Point in Badlands National Park in South Dakota

Badlands are a particular type of rock formation found in arid regions around the world. These formations require poorly consolidated rock and infrequent but torrential rain. The soft rock allows large quantities of water to channel down gullies, carrying away sediment. Bentonite clay within these formations can swell up with moisture. As the clay dries it shrinks and cracks, creating a surface resembling the skin of an elephant. Beneath the surface, an intricate maze of natural pipes and spaces form within the badlands. This hidden plumbing appears on the face of the badlands as dimples, sinks, slumps and seeps. As erosion continues, new features including caves and natural bridges can form. Badlands often take on varied colors giving the formations a banded appearance. These colorful badland formations were at Blue Mesa in Petrified Forest National Park near Holbrook, Arizona, USA.

The Painted Desert (Badlands) on a sunny day in the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

Red Rock Canyon State Park, California

View of the Blue Mesa area in the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona with stormy cloudy sky.

South of Farminigton New Mexico, a woman hikes the Bisti De-Na-Zin Wilderness desert badlands discovering a petrified tree in the weathered sandstone hoodoos of a Cretaceous landscape that was once a coastal swamp and forest 70 million years ago.

Panoramic view of Rock formations in sunny day, Badlands National Park, South Dakota USA

Petrified wood lies around multi-colored, eroded badland hills within Petrified Forest National Park in northeastern Arizona.

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