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land so hostile to farmers it earned a name and kept it
means A region of dry, heavily eroded terrain with steep slopes, soft sedimentary rock, and little vegetation, hard to cross and harder to farm.
from A near-literal English rendering. French trappers and traders in North America called such terrain 'les mauvaises terres à traverser' — 'the bad lands to cross.' This echoed a name the Lakota already had for the region, 'mako sica,' meaning 'land bad' or 'bad land.' English speakers simply translated the verdict and kept it, capitalizing it for the iconic eroded country of the Dakotas.
- french origin
- named les mauvaises terres, bad lands to cross
- fossil vault
- erosion exposes 75-million-year-old marine reptile bones
- fast erosion
- loses about an inch of rock yearly
- layered color
- stripes mark ancient floodplains, ash, and seas
- refuge history
- sheltered ghost dancers and outlaws alike
badlands national park — eroded landscape in south dakota, usa with 244,000 acres of colorful sedimentary formations
badlands of zhangye danxia — rainbow-colored rock formations in gansu province, china created by mineral deposits
badlands of atacama — stark desert badlands in northern chile spanning thousands of square kilometers