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The Big Muddy Badlands [1] are a series of badlands in southern Saskatchewan, Canada, and northern Montana, United States, in the Big Muddy Valley and along Big Muddy Creek. [2] Big Muddy Valley is a cleft of erosion and sandstone that is 55 kilometres (34 mi) long, 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) wide, and 160 metres (520 ft) deep.
Big Muddy Lake sits in the Big Muddy Valley of the Big Muddy Badlands 140 metres (460 ft) below the surrounding landscape. The valley and badlands were formed over 12,000 years ago near the end of the last ice age with a glacial lake outburst flood from a pre-historic glacial lake located at present-day Old Wives Lake. [5]
Big Muddy Creek [2] is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 191 mi (307 km) long, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan and the U.S. state of Montana. Its source is in the Big Muddy Badlands of Saskatchewan. Big Muddy Creek begins in southern Saskatchewan at Big Muddy Lake, [3] east of Big Beaver, Saskatchewan.
Highway 34 passes through the Big Muddy Badlands, which is a 55-kilometre (34 mi) long, 3.2-kilometre (2.0 mi) wide, and 160-metre (520 ft) deep valley of erosion and sandstone along Big Muddy Creek. [9] Big Muddy Lake is downstream along Big Muddy Creek and east of Highway 34. [10]
The Big Muddy River is a 156-mile-long (251 km) river in southern Illinois. [2] It joins the Mississippi River just south of Grand Tower. The Big Muddy has been dammed near Benton , forming Rend Lake .
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Salt flats of Willow Bunch Lake. Willow Bunch Lake is shallow salt lake with a surface area of about 3,287.9 hectares (8,125 acres). [3] It sits in the Big Muddy Valley, which was formed over 12,000 years ago near the end of the last ice age when a glacial lake outburst flood occurred from a pre-historic glacial lake located at present-day Old Wives Lake. [4]
The Big Muddy Badlands in Saskatchewan [20] gained notoriety as a hideout for outlaws. [21] There is a large badland area in Alberta, particularly in the valley of the Red Deer River, where Dinosaur Provincial Park is located, as well as in Drumheller, where the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology is located. [22]