Before Sunrise Badlands National Park South Dakota
by Joan Carroll
Title
Before Sunrise Badlands National Park South Dakota
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Photography And Digital Art
Description
A dramatic pre-dawn view from Burns Overlook in Badlands National Park, South Dakota. Erosion is the defining feature of the landscape here. This overlook is named after the homestead of Wilson Burns, who raised sheep in the basin during the early 20th century. A freshwater spring was a rare commodity that kept this operation going. Now wells must be dug a few thousand feet deep. Managing to hold on for the early years of the 20th century, most homesteaders were driven out of the area by the drought associated with the Dustbowl era. The Badlands were formed by the geologic forces of deposition and erosion. Deposition of sediments began 69 million years ago when an ancient sea stretched across what is now the Great Plains. After the sea retreated, successive land environments, including rivers and flood plains, continued to deposit sediments. Although the major period of deposition ended 28 million years ago, significant erosion of the Badlands did not begin until about a half a million years ago. Erosion continues to carve the Badlands buttes today.
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sunrise, clouds, nature, stone, viewpoint, scenic, formation, arid, travel, vista, valley, erosion, hills, cliff, limestone,
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May 24th, 2020
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