Despite being many hundreds of miles from today’s ocean waters, the South Dakota Badlands are full of waves! Differential erosion, drainage and deposition are the five-dollar terms for the water-flow processes that lead to undulating surfaces of different kinds of clay. With their source being horizontal, multicolored clay, ash and silt deposits, the kind of sorting done in heavy rains and torrents leads to these naturally built bands of ethereal pastel beauty.
2 NNW Interior SD (16 Jun 12) Looking N
43.7550, -101.9924