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Painted desert badlands. Arizona, USA

Highly eroded landscape at Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

Rugged and Scenic landscape of the ancient petrified forest in Arizona

Focus stacked colorful petrified tree trunk. Petrified wood log in the Petrified Forest.

View of mountains with colorful striations in desert southwestern US

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 colourful rocks of Painted Desert National Park, Arizona

Lot's Wife in Petrified Forest National Park AZ in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, United States

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

Ichigualasto Provincial Park in San Juan, Argentina, was declared a Protected Area by the Government of the Province of San Juan, and it's also a World Heritage by UNESCO, mainly for its geological and paleontological importance of the place.

Petrified wood, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

Red rocks at Valley of Dreams, New Mexico, USA

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

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.

Desert landscape of the beautiful petrified forest in Arizona.

The colourful rocks of Painted Desert National Park, Arizona

Petrified Forest National Park is a United States national park in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona.

Colorful patterns in the Lybrook Badlands, New Mexico.

One of the Teepees With Colorful Layers of Sedimentary Rock in Petrified Forest National Park Arizona

Petrified Forest, Arizona / USA - July 26, 2020: A petrified log sits on the ground with mesas in the background in Petrified Forest National Park.

Beautiful colrs in Petrified Trees in Petrified Forest National Park

Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona.

Petrified Forest and Painted Desert, USA

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.

Beautiful view of the painted desert area of Petrified Forest National Park Arizona

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

Bisti badlands,petrified wood ,New Mexico, USA

Petrified stumps and mesa in one of the world's largest and most colorful concentrations of petrified wood and multi-hued badlands. Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA.

Erosive multi-colored clay in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

Petrified Forest National Park

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