Badlands

What are badlands? Badlands are a pattern of gullies in a landscape of soft rocks where there is no plant cover to hold the soil in place.

Badlands landscape, formed by deposition and erosion by wind and water, contains some of the richest fossil beds in the world, Badlands National Park, South Dakota, USA.

Badlands are a feature of river basins in semi-arid parts of the world. The Badlands National Park in South Dakota shows these features clearly. However, over-farming has also produced badlands in places where they would not naturally occur.

South Dakota Badlands

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