Geology of National Parks

Badlands National Park

A photo tour featuring park geology and wildlife

Start a 3D image tour by clicking here. See tour in standard photo images See images in a thumbnail image gallery Return to the Geology of National Parks main page

Click here to start a 3D tour of the Badlands National Park in western South Dakota.
You will need 3-D glasses to view this series of anaglyphic images.
Click on any of the images to continue to the next page in the linked series of web pages.

Map of Badlands National Park
Click on the map or click on "next image" to see a series of park images.

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Click on a picture below for a larger view.
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Moon rise-Northeast Entrance   Badlands at Northeast Entrance   Cliff Shelf Nature Trail   Cliff Shelf Nature Trail   Cliff Shelf Nature Trail
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Cliff Shelf Nature Trail   Badlands at Cedar Pass Lodge   Deer near Cedar Pass Lodge   Deer near Cedar Pass Lodge   Big Badlands
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Big Badlands   Big Badlands   Big Badlands   Fossil Exhibit Trail   Near Fossil Exhibit Trail
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Near Fossil Exhibit Trail   Pig Dig Shelter   Dillon Pass/Conata Basin   Dillon Pass/Conata Basin   Ancient Hunters Overlook
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Ancient Hunters Overlook   Pinnacles Overlook   Pinnacles Overlook   Pinnacles Overlook   Pinnacles Overlook
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Pinnacles Overlook   Pinnacles Overlook   Pinnacles Overlook   Grassy Tables Overlook area   Grassy Tables Overlook area
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Frost ice crystals at -10°F   Frost ice crystals at -10°F   Frost ice crystals at -10°F   Grassy Tables Overlook area   American Bison
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Yellow Mounds   Yellow Mounds   Yellow Mounds   American Bison   American Bison
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American Bison   Sage Creek Valley   Cutbank in Sage Creek   Sheep Mountain access road   Sheep Mountain area
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Sheep Mountain area   Sheep Mountain area   Sheep Mountain area   White River Visitor Center   White River
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Cedar Creek Valley   Cedar Creek Valley   Red Shirt, South Dakota        

Click here to see a geologic map of the Black Hills region.


Click here to learn more about Badlands National Park (National Park Service website: http://www.nps.gov/badl).

Chick here to see a stratigraphic chart of Badlands National Park.

See Selected References about the geology of Badlands National Park.

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Photography on this website was taken in 2009. This website contains images produced from stereo photo pairs that were manipulated into anaglyphs (3-D images). You will need red-and-cyan stereo viewing glasses to get the 3-D visual effects.
This page is <https://gotbooks.miracosta.edu/gonp/badl/>
Last modified 11/29/2010