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White River Badlands

Ecoregion on Great Plains in NE, SD

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The White River Badlands in Nebraska border the northern edges of the Pine Ridge escarpment and are southern outliers of a more extensive area in South Dakota. Formed through the erosion of the soft Brule and Chadron clays, siltstones and some sandstones, topography ranges from the sheer, highly dissected landscape of areas like Toadstool Park, to lower relief toeslopes. The landscape is broken by grass-covered, perched “sod tables” that may be grazed or tilled.

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