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We want these "curley dock" erased!

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In Badlands National Park, South Dakota, on September 3rd, 2019, along the trail to the "Prairie Wind Overlook" off South Dakota Highway 240 in Castle Butte Township in Pennington County.

According to the map in the 1996 soil survey of the prairie portions of Pennington and Custer counties, soils here are predominantly clay Vertisols (Aridic Leptic Haplusterts) of the Larvie series.

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Prairie area for 2019 best of.

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In Badlands National Park, South Dakota, on September 3rd, 2019, at the "Prairie Wind Overlook" off South Dakota Highway 240 in Castle Butte Township in Pennington County.

According to the map in the 1996 soil survey of the prairie portions of Pennington and Custer counties, soils here are predominantly clay Vertisols (Aridic Leptic Haplusterts) of the Larvie series.

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• Parks—South Dakota (sh85098194)
• Prairie plants (sh85106070)

Delights of prairie expanse are a subclass of delights of grassland expanse: Remember!

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In Badlands National Park, South Dakota, on September 3rd, 2019, a view from the parking lot for the "Prairie Wind Overlook" along South Dakota Highway 240 in Castle Butte Township in Pennington County.

According to the map in the 1996 soil survey of the prairie portions of Pennington and Custer counties, soils here are predominantly clay Vertisols (Aridic Leptic Haplusterts) of the Larvie series.

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• Prairie plants (sh85106070)

Me personally I've got a GRASSLAND PLANT AREA I like better than this one but maybe this is the one you adore best.

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In Badlands National Park, South Dakota, on September 3rd, 2019, at the "Prairie Wind Overlook" off South Dakota Highway 240 in Castle Butte Township in Pennington County.

According to the map in the 1996 soil survey of the prairie portions of Pennington and Custer counties, soils here are predominantly clay Vertisols (Aridic Leptic Haplusterts) of the Larvie series.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Clay soils (sh85026874)
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• Parks—South Dakota (sh85098194)
• Prairie plants (sh85106070)

In Badlands National Park, South Dakota, on September 3rd, 2019, along the trail to the "Prairie Wind Overlook" off South Dakota Highway 240 in Castle Butte Township in Pennington County.

According to the map in the 1996 soil survey of the prairie portions of Pennington and Custer counties, soils here are predominantly clay Vertisols (Aridic Leptic Haplusterts) of the Larvie series.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Clay soils (sh85026874)
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• Parks—South Dakota (sh85098194)
• Prairie plants (sh85106070)

In Badlands National Park, South Dakota, on September 3rd, 2019, along the trail to the "Prairie Wind Overlook" off South Dakota Highway 240 in Castle Butte Township in Pennington County.

According to the map in the 1996 soil survey of the prairie portions of Pennington and Custer counties, soils here are predominantly clay Vertisols (Aridic Leptic Haplusterts) of the Larvie series.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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• Prairie plants (sh85106070)

Let the plants touch your eyes!

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In Badlands National Park, South Dakota, on September 3rd, 2019, along the trail to the "Prairie Wind Overlook" off South Dakota Highway 240 in Castle Butte Township in Pennington County.

According to the map in the 1996 soil survey of the prairie portions of Pennington and Custer counties, soils here are predominantly clay Vertisols (Aridic Leptic Haplusterts) of the Larvie series.

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"It looks just like a carpet don't it!" I overheard a delighted tourist exclaim. Haha he could only understand it as a tufted carpet lol.

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In Badlands National Park, South Dakota, on September 3rd, 2019, along the trail to the "Prairie Wind Overlook" off South Dakota Highway 240 in Castle Butte Township in Pennington County.

According to the map in the 1996 soil survey of the prairie portions of Pennington and Custer counties, soils here are predominantly clay Vertisols (Aridic Leptic Haplusterts) of the Larvie series.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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It is pretty so it is easy to understand why the Badlands tourists love it so much but I worry that they will not realize that the dark brown "curly dock"/"curley dock" plants in the foreground are non-native, undesirable. We need to send them straight back to Eurasia!

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In Badlands National Park, South Dakota, on September 3rd, 2019, along the trail to the "Prairie Wind Overlook" off South Dakota Highway 240 in Castle Butte Township in Pennington County.

According to the map in the 1996 soil survey of the prairie portions of Pennington and Custer counties, soils here are predominantly clay Vertisols (Aridic Leptic Haplusterts) of the Larvie series.

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• Prairie plants (sh85106070)

I would like to have the nature boardwalk as the back deck of my house, and the grassland as my back yard, and the sunflowers in a flowerpot.

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In Badlands National Park, South Dakota, on September 3rd, 2019, along the trail to the "Prairie Wind Overlook" off South Dakota Highway 240 in Castle Butte Township in Pennington County.

According to the map in the 1996 soil survey of the prairie portions of Pennington and Custer counties, soils here are predominantly clay Vertisols (Aridic Leptic Haplusterts) of the Larvie series.

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The idea was to demonstrate to tourists that not every hectare of Badlands National Park is literal badlands. OK!

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In Badlands National Park, South Dakota, on September 3rd, 2019, on the trail to the "Prairie Wind Overlook" off South Dakota Highway 240 in Castle Butte Township in Pennington County.

According to the map in the 1996 soil survey of the prairie portions of Pennington and Custer counties, soils here are predominantly clay Vertisols (Aridic Leptic Haplusterts) of the Larvie series.

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"Our lands crumble and disappear!"

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In Badlands National Park, South Dakota, on September 3rd, 2019, at the Homestead Overlook on the south side of South Dakota Highway 240 in Conata Township in Pennington County.

The cliffs are part of the Brule Formation of the White River Group, composed mainly of layers of mudstone, muddy sandstone, and siltstone, deposited 34-30 mya, during the Rupelian Age of the Oligocene Epoch of the Paleogene Period of the Cenozoic Era, and eroded starting ~500 kya.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Parks—South Dakota (sh85098194)

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Source for most geological details not otherwise cited:
Benton, Rachel C., et al. The White River Badlands : Geology and Paleontology, Indiana University Press, 2015.

I am no professional geologist so when I visit the South Dakota Badlands I PERSONALLY FIND IT DIFFICULT to distinguish between the sandy siltstones of the Sharps Formation, which is located at the top of some of the cliffs in the park, and the mudstones, muddy sandstones, and siltstones of the Brule Formation, which comprise most of the cliffs in the park.

These are apparently exposures of the Sharps Formation, per two information sources: vector data based on Raymond and King's 1976 geological map of Badlands National Park which I viewed in QGIS; and Martin et al's 2004 Geologic Map of South Dakota, which I viewed in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Macrostrat.

Ah!, ah, the Sharps Formation, composed mainly of sandy siltstone, deposited 30-28 mya, during the Rupelian Age of the Oligocene Epoch of the Paleogene Period of the Cenozoic Era, and eroded starting ~500 kya.

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In Badlands National Park, South Dakota, on September 3rd, 2019, at the Pinnacles Overlook on the south side of South Dakota Highway 240 in Conata Township in Pennington County.

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Yea here in the foreground we get the Yellow Mounds Paleosol Series, an ancient pedogenic modification of Late Cretaceous rocks of the Fox Hills Formation and Pierre Shale; and above that the red Interior Paleosol Series, an ancient pedogenic modification of Eocene rocks of the Chamberlain Pass Formation containing white sandstone channels; topped by rounded hills of gray claystones of the Peanut Peak Member of the Chadron Formation of the White River Group from 37-34 mya, approximately the Priabonian Age of the Eocene Epoch of the Paleogene Period of the Cenozoic Era.

Farther back are rounded brown hills and striped cliffs of the Brule Formation of the White River Group, composed mainly of layers of mudstone, muddy sandstone, and siltstone, deposited 34-30 mya, during the Rupelian Age of the Oligocene Epoch of the Paleogene Period of the Cenozoic Era.

Yea, and all of this started getting eroded ~500 kya.

You love it!

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In Badlands National Park, South Dakota, on September 3rd, 2019, off the north side of South Dakota Highway 240 in Conata Township in Pennington County.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Parks—South Dakota (sh85098194)

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Source for most geological details not otherwise cited:
Benton, Rachel C., et al. The White River Badlands : Geology and Paleontology, Indiana University Press, 2015.

Haha the grasses are "patchy hair growth."

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In Badlands National Park, South Dakota, on September 3rd, 2019, off the south side of South Dakota Highway 240 in Conata Township in Pennington County.

The ravine is formed of gray claystones of the Peanut Peak Member of the Chadron Formation of the White River Group from 37-34 mya, approximately the Priabonian Age of the Eocene Epoch of the Paleogene Period of the Cenozoic Era; the red Interior Palesol Series, an ancient pedogenic modification of Eocene rocks of the Chamberlain Pass Formation; and the Yellow Mounds Paleosol Series, an ancient pedogenic modification of Late Cretaceous rocks of the Fox Hills Formation and Pierre Shale. The cliffs in the background are formed from the Brule Formation of the White River Group, composed of rocks formed from sediments deposited 34-30 mya, during the Rupelian Age of the Oligocene Epoch of the Paleogene Period of the Cenozoic Era. Erosion began ~500 kya.

The intermittent watercourse at the base of the ravine is part of the drainage basin of the White River, which flows to the Missouri River.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Junipers (sh85071044)
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Information source for most geological details not otherwise cited:
Benton, Rachel C., et al. The White River Badlands : Geology and Paleontology, Indiana University Press, 2015.

Tourists almost go nuts from happiness when they see this rounded hill of 34-to-37-million-year-old claystone with red-'n'-yella paleosols underneath.

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In Badlands National Park, South Dakota, on September 3rd, 2019, off the south side of South Dakota Highway 240 in Conata Township in Pennington County.

The upper portion of the rounded hill is formed of gray claystones of the Peanut Peak Member of the Chadron Formation of the White River Group from 37-34 mya, approximately the Priabonian Age of the Eocene Epoch of the Paleogene Period of the Cenozoic Era. Below it are the red Interior Palesol Series, an ancient pedogenic modification of Eocene rocks of the Chamberlain Pass Formation, and the Yellow Mounds Paleosol Series, an ancient pedogenic modification of Late Cretaceous rocks of the Fox Hills Formation and Pierre Shale. The cliffs in the background are formed from the Brule Formation of the White River Group, composed of rocks formed from sediments deposited 34-30 mya, during the Rupelian Age of the Oligocene Epoch of the Paleogene Period of the Cenozoic Era. Erosion began ~500 kya.

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• Parks—South Dakota (sh85098194)

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Source for most geological details not otherwise cited:
Benton, Rachel C., et al. The White River Badlands : Geology and Paleontology, Indiana University Press, 2015.

"Wow these Pleistocene and Holocene erosions have really 'done a number' on these layers of Oligocene sediments," I said wetly. "The Oligocene is ours!"

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In Badlands National Park, South Dakota, on September 3rd, 2019, at the Burns Basin Overlook along South Dakota Highway 240 in Castle Butte Township in Pennington County.

This is the Brule Formation of the White River Group, composed mainly of layers of mudstone, muddy sandstone, and siltstone, deposited 34-30 mya, during the Rupelian Age of the Oligocene Epoch of the Paleogene Period of the Cenozoic Era, and eroded starting ~500 kya.

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Source for most geological details not otherwise cited:
Benton, Rachel C., et al. The White River Badlands : Geology and Paleontology, Indiana University Press, 2015.

Showily numerous erosions at very scenic overlooks.

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In Badlands National Park, South Dakota, on September 3rd, 2019, at the Pinnacles Overlook on the south side of South Dakota Highway 240 in Conata Township in Pennington County.

The cliffs are formed from the Brule Formation of the White River Group, composed mainly of layers of mudstone, muddy sandstone, and siltstone, deposited 34-30 mya, during the Rupelian Age of the Oligocene Epoch of the Paleogene Period of the Cenozoic Era, and eroded starting ~500 kya.

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Source for most geological details not otherwise cited:
Benton, Rachel C., et al. The White River Badlands : Geology and Paleontology, Indiana University Press, 2015.

In aridity, turning toasty golded brown like a toasted carb, in early September.

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In Wasta Township near Wasta, South Dakota, on September 3rd, 2019, on the north side of Highway 1416.

According to the map in the 1996 soil survey of the prairie portions of Pennington and Custer counties, soils here are predominantly clay Inceptisols (Torrertic Haplustepts) of the Pierre series, derived from Pierre shale from the Late Cretaceous epoch.

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Does it ever!

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In the Black Hills National Forest in Pennington County, South Dakota, on September 2nd, 2019, a view from a roadside pulloff on the north side of South Dakota Highway 244.

According to the map in the 1990 soil survey of the Black Hills portions of Pennington and Custer counties, soils here consist predominantly of a complex of Alfisols (Glossic Hapludalfs and Typic Haplustalfs) of the Buska and Mocmont series, among rock outcrops.

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