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Badlands

Detailed Description

 

Badlands carved in fossiliferous deposits in eastern Lanfair Valley in the eastern Mojave National Preserve. The tan-colored sediments are interpreted as playa and pluvial lake deposits of Pliocene to Pleistocene age (Theodore and others, 2007; Reynolds and others, 1995).

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Public Domain.