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Badlands National Park (Lakota: Makȟóšiča [3]) is a national park of the United States in southwestern South Dakota. The park protects 242,756 acres (379.3 sq mi; 982.4 km 2 ) [ 1 ] of sharply eroded buttes and pinnacles , along with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States.
Badlands National Park. The geology of South Dakota began to form more than 2.5 billion years ago in the Archean eon of the Precambrian.Igneous crystalline basement rock continued to emplace through the Proterozoic, interspersed with sediments and volcanic materials.
Dust Storms, "One of South Dakota's Black Blizzards, 1934" Shelterbelts of trees are established in East River to reduce erosion from dust storms. 1935. Flandreau Indian Reservation established per the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. 1936. Dust Bowl - Dallas, South Dakota 1936. Following a severely cold winter, a severe summer heat wave hits ...
Badlands National Park is located in southwestern South Dakota, east of the Black Hills. It's about 75 miles away from the state's second-most populous city, Rapid City. The nearest major airport ...
The county was created as a part of the Dakota Territory in 1875, although it remains unorganized. [4] [5] Its largest community is Pine Ridge. The county lies entirely within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and contains part of Badlands National Park. It is one of five South Dakota counties entirely on an Indian reservation. [6]
The geologic record reveals that South Dakota was a moist coastal plain at that time. Seawater once more covered South Dakota during the Jurassic period. This sea was home to creatures like ammonites, clams, crinoids, and starfish. As the sea retreated, South Dakota became a terrestrial environment dotted with lakes, streams, and swamps.
South Dakota is the 17th-largest state in the country. South Dakota has a humid continental climate in the east and the Black Hills, and a semi-arid climate in the west outside of the Black Hills, featuring four very distinct seasons, and the ecology of the state features plant and animal species typical of a North American temperate grassland ...
After the battle the Sioux, along with their women and children, scattered into the Badlands west of Killdeer Mountain, near where the present-day South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park is located. The Dakota badlands are characterized by "deep, impassable ravines" and "high rugged hills." [5]