Puddles left over from the previous evening’s and overnight rains reflected a jagged ridge of eroded, soft sediments in Badlands National Park. Every year, a few more millimeters to inches of clay and sand wash downriver from all the Badlands slopes, ultimately delivered to the bottoms of the big reservoirs of central South Dakota. Before the lakes here and elsewhere were built, this material combined with some from Alabama, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, and many places in between, gathered across the entire Mississippi/Missouri/Ohio River drainage basin, to form much of Louisiana.
2 NNE Interior SD (5 Jun 20) Looking WNW
43.7582, -101.9744Badlands Reflections
Puddles left over from the previous evening’s and overnight rains reflected a jagged ridge of eroded, soft sediments in Badlands National Park. Every year, a few more millimeters to inches of clay and sand wash downriver from all the Badlands slopes, ultimately delivered to the bottoms of the big reservoirs of central South Dakota. Before the lakes here and elsewhere were built, this material combined with some from Alabama, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, and many places in between, gathered across the entire Mississippi/Missouri/Ohio River drainage basin, to form much of Louisiana.
2 NNE Interior SD (5 Jun 20) Looking WNW
43.7582, -101.9744