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Photo ID: h0wzyj	Subject: Landscape	Description
	Biomes; Ecology; Erosion; Grasslands; Landforms; Oligocene; Plains	Prairie in Badlands National Park of South Dakota. Badlands National Park consists of 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles and spires blended with the largest, protected mixed grass prairie in the United States. The park has been shaped by erosion, and is home to many Oligocene fossils. View Geological Time Scale for this image.
	Photographer	Location
	Bruce Molnia Credit Line: Copyright © Bruce Molnia, Terra Photographics	North America; United States; South Dakota; Badlands National Park
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Photo ID: h27rfi	Subject: Igneous Rocks	Description
	Abyssolity; Batholiths; Granites; Granitic Composition; Hills; Intrusions; Intrusive; Intrusive Mountain; Mountains; Plutonic Rocks; Plutons; Precambrian	Summit of Harney Peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota, composed of Precambrian granite. Harney Peak at an elevation of 7,242 feet, is the highest peak in South Dakota as well as the center of the Harney Peak batholith. View Geological Time Scale for this image.
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	Bruce Molnia Credit Line: Copyright © Bruce Molnia, Terra Photographics	North America; United States; South Dakota; Harney Peak
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Photo ID: h27sti	Subject: Sedimentary Rocks	Description
	Badlands; Cliffs; Erosion; Erosional Features; Hills; Landforms; Landscape; Petrology; Plains; Terrains; Topography	White rocks and erosion of the Badlands.
	Photographer	Location
	Bruce Molnia Credit Line: Copyright © Bruce Molnia, Terra Photographics	North America; United States; South Dakota; Badlands
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Photo ID: h2a4im	Subject: Sedimentary Rocks	Description
	Bluffs; Canyons; Cliffs; Paleozoic; Petrology; Sandstone	Spearfish Canyon, South Dakota, showing outcrop of Paleozoic sandstone. View Geological Time Scale for this image.
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	Bruce Molnia Credit Line: Copyright © Bruce Molnia, Terra Photographics	North America; United States; South Dakota; Spearfish Canyon
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Photo ID: h2a58i	Subject: Waterfalls	Description
	Cascades; Falls; Fluvial Features; Geomorphology; Hydrology; Rapids; Rivers; White Water	White water along Big Sioux Falls.
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	Bruce Molnia Credit Line: Copyright © Bruce Molnia, Terra Photographics	North America; United States; South Dakota; Big Sioux Falls
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Photo ID: h2a6l6	Subject: Rivers	Description
	Channels; Drainage Patterns; Fluvial Environment; Fluvial Features; Geomorphology; Streams; Surface Drainage; Surface Water; Trellis Drainage	Trellis drainage through the Badlands of South Dakota. Trellis drainage is an arrangement of surface drainage characterized by parallel main streams that have right-angle tributaries. It is commonly developed where the beveled edges of alternating hard and soft rocks outcrop in parallel belts.
	Photographer	Location
	Bruce Molnia Credit Line: Copyright © Bruce Molnia, Terra Photographics	North America; United States; South Dakota
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Photo ID: h325dm	Subject: Rivers	Description
	Channels; Fluvial Features; Geomorphology; Hydrology; Rapids; Streams; Surface Water; Water; Waterways	Dell rapids in South Dakota.
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	Bruce Molnia Credit Line: Copyright © Bruce Molnia, Terra Photographics	North America; United States; South Dakota; Dell Rapids
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Photo ID: h4vfu2	Subject: Rivers	Description
	Avulsion; Floodplains; Fluvial Features; Geomorphology; Hydrology; Landscape; Meanders; Sinuosity; Streams; Surface Water	Meandering river in the Badlands of South Dakota.
	Photographer	Location
	Bruce Molnia Credit Line: Copyright © Bruce Molnia, Terra Photographics	North America; United States; South Dakota
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Photo ID: h4vgby	Subject: Waterfalls	Description
	Cascades; Fluvial Features; Geomorphology; Rapids; Rivers; Streams; Surface Water	Falls of the Big Sioux river in South Dakota during winter.
	Photographer	Location
	Bruce Molnia Credit Line: Copyright © Bruce Molnia, Terra Photographics	North America; United States; South Dakota; Big Sioux Falls
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Photo ID: h4vged	Subject: Metamorphic Rocks	Description
	Metamorphism; Quartzite; Rivers; Streams; Surface Water	Outcrop of Sioux quartzite in Garretson South Dakota, along a slow moving stream.
	Photographer	Location
	Bruce Molnia Credit Line: Copyright © Bruce Molnia, Terra Photographics	North America; United States; South Dakota
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