formations capped with green prairie containing reddish-orange rock layers
The layers of the Badlands represent past environments in geologic time. The environment represented by the Brule Formation, seen here, would have been a cool, dry grassland much like the Great Plains are today.
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Badlands National Park, Code: BADL
Badlands National Park, South Dakota Latitude: 43.8339996337891, Longitude: -102.393898010254