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Painted desert badlands. Arizona, USA

View of mountains with colorful striations in desert southwestern US

Arid desert landscape in Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona United States

The colourful rocks of Painted Desert National Park, Arizona

Colorful The Tepees Hills Badland Formation Painted Desert Petrified Forest National Park Arizona Deposited over 200 million years ago.

Aerial view of geological formations at the foot of Bull Ridge at the end of Fifty Mile Mountain near Glen Canyon, San Juan River, Navajo Mountain and Lake Powell, Utah, USA

A unique desert landscape with out of this world scenery. Including hills and colorful layers.

Petrified Forest National Park

Petrified Forest and Painted Desert, USA

Rugged and beautiful landscape in mountains near Tuba City, in northern Arizona

This mountain looks like a multicolored pyramid as you are coming up the park road.

The colourful rocks of Nizhoni Point at Painted Desert National Park, Arizona

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.

Petrified Forest National Park is a national park of the United States in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona, famous for petrified logs, fossils, badlands, ancient petroglyphs, painted desert, wildlife and wildflowers

Colorful Hikers The Tepees Hills Badland Formation Painted Desert Petrified Forest National Park Arizona Deposited over 200 million years ago.

Drone scenic landscape near Winslow, Arizona. Colorful eroded cliffs composed of layers of siltstone, mudstone, and shale of the Triassic Chinle Formation. Dramatic Arizona landscape views, Little Painted Desert Arizona

Painted Desert in the Petrified National Forest, Arizona.

Slot Canyon featuring Cone shaped Tent Rocks -Multicolored rocks shaped like traditional native American tents. Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument in New Mexico, SW USA. Cochiti Pueblo New Mexico. the cone shaped tent rock formations are the products of volcanic eruptions.

Rugged and Scenic landscape of the ancient petrified forest national park in Arizona

Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona.

Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

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Colourful hills at Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

The colourful rocks of Nizhoni Point at Painted Desert National Park, Arizona

Colourful rock formation on route to Tuba City from Grand canyon National Park, Arizona, USA

The Painted Desert is an interesting and colorful part of Northern Arizona. It starts south of Holbrook and extends about 120 miles north almost to the Utah border. It encompasses about 7,500 square miles of the Colorado Plateau. The area is made up of colorful mudstone and sandstone known as the Chinle Formation. The rocks of the Chinle Formation were deposited from 227 to 205 million years ago during the Triassic Period. Over the next 180 million years the rocks were buried, uplifted and then eroded into the present-day badland topography. This photograph of the Painted Desert was taken from Little Painted Desert County Park near Winslow, Arizona, USA.

Red Orange Yellow Petrified Rock Wood Logs Crystal Forest Petrified Forest National Park Arizona

Landscape in Texas not far from Oklahoma state. Gray County, Texas, USA

Petrified Forest National Park

Landscape at Bisti Southern Section, Farmington, New Mexico, USA

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