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View of mountains with colorful striations in desert southwestern US

Painted desert badlands. Arizona, USA

Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

Nizhoni Point at Painted Desert National Park, Arizona

Colorful The Tepees Hills Badland Formation Painted Desert Petrified Forest National Park Arizona Deposited over 200 million years ago.

Badlands are a particular type of rock formation found in arid regions around the world. These formations require poorly consolidated rock and infrequent but torrential rain. The soft rock allows large quantities of water to channel down gullies, carrying away sediment. Bentonite clay within these formations can swell up with moisture. As the clay dries it shrinks and cracks, creating a surface resembling the skin of an elephant. Beneath the surface, an intricate maze of natural pipes and spaces form within the badlands. This hidden plumbing appears on the face of the badlands as dimples, sinks, slumps and seeps. As erosion continues, new features including caves and natural bridges can form. Badlands often take on varied colors giving the formations a banded appearance. These colorful badland formations were at Blue Mesa in Petrified Forest National Park near Holbrook, Arizona, USA.

A sign warns visitors that the “Area Behind Sign Closed” in the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, USA.

Log from a fallen tree in the Petrified Forest in Arizona.

The Painted Desert on a sunny day. Diverse sedimentary rocks and clay washed out by water. Petrified Forest National Park, USA, Arizona

Blue Mesa trail in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA.

Petrified Forest National Park

The colourful rocks of Nizhoni Point at Painted Desert National Park, Arizona

Purple Mountain Hill Valley Hiking Trail Blue Mesa Painted Desert Petrified Forest National Park Arizona

Drone scenic landscape near Winslow, Arizona. Colorful eroded cliffs composed of layers of siltstone, mudstone, and shale of the Triassic Chinle Formation. Dramatic Arizona landscape views, Little Painted Desert Arizona

Scenic view of a road in the Petrified Desert National Park, in the State of Arizona, USA; Concept for travel in America and road trip

The Painted Desert is an interesting and colorful part of Northern Arizona. It starts south of Holbrook and extends about 120 miles north almost to the Utah border. It encompasses about 7,500 square miles of the Colorado Plateau. The area is made up of colorful mudstone and sandstone known as the Chinle Formation. The rocks of the Chinle Formation were deposited from 227 to 205 million years ago during the Triassic Period. Over the next 180 million years the rocks were buried, uplifted and then eroded into the present-day badland topography. This photograph of the Painted Desert was taken from Little Painted Desert County Park near Winslow, Arizona, USA.

Indian Route 15 clings to the edge of a sandstone mesa in Apache County like this one, just north of the Mai Dagi Valley near Cornfields

Part of a petrified tree trunk on the ground within Petrified Forest National Park in northeastern Arizona on a hot summer day.

Arizona mountain eroded landscape, Petrified Forest National Wilderness Area and Painted Desert.

Petrified rocks from Petrified Forest near Holbrook Arizona, USA

The colourful rocks of Painted Desert National Park, Arizona

Hikers Trail Hills Cliffs Valley Blue Mesa Painted Desert Petrified Forest National Park Arizona

Petrified wood is formed when dead trees are buried by layers of sediment. The logs soak up groundwater and silica from volcanic ash and over time are crystallized into quartz. Different minerals create the colors seen in the logs. These petrified logs are at the Rainbow Forest in Petrified Forest National Park near Holbrook, Arizona, USA.

Views of the Painted Desert in Petrified Forest National Park

Focus stacked colorful petrified tree trunk. Petrified wood log in the Petrified Forest.

Blue Mesa in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA

Petrified wood created through time by silica enriched groundwater percolating through the logs, replacing the organic molecules in the wood, and creating a replica in quarrtz. Located at Petrified Forest National Park. Taken with an iPhone 14 Pro

Painted Desert, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA

Tiponi Point at Painted Desert National Park, Arizona

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