badlands
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Today, the Ledi Geraru area is a rugged landscape of faulted badlands.
From Science Daily • May 16, 2026
It’s also Robby’s final day of work before embarking on a three-month motorcycle road trip set to take him from Pittsburgh to the Canadian badlands.
From Salon • Jan. 8, 2026
So arresting were the badlands surrounding the 2.5-mile Twenty Mule Team Canyon drive that it took us 20 minutes to complete.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2023
The town is surrounded by Anza-Borrego Desert State Park — about 650,000 acres of badlands, sand, boulders, slot canyons and Washingtonia filifera palms, the only kind native to California.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2023
The bajada beneath the badlands is open country cut by steep-walled arroyos.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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Physical Geography - High School
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