恶地国家公园，南达科他州，美国 Badlands National Park, South Dakota (© Grant Ordelheide/Tandem Stills + Motion)

恶地国家公园，南达科他州，美国 Badlands National Park, South Dakota (© Grant Ordelheide/Tandem Stills + Motion)

还不错的荒地 Not so bad lands

恶地国家公园纪念日

这张密集分层的图像是不是让你产生屏幕坏掉的错觉？这其实是南达科他州恶地国家公园里迷人的化石层，五彩斑斓的岩石层下隐藏着这片土地的历史，保存着古代马、骆驼、老虎和犀牛等动物的遗骸。这片以崎岖石阵和草原为装饰的不毛之地，主要是由沉积和侵蚀这两种相反的自然力量共同雕琢而成。红衬衫台，海拔3340英尺，是恶地国家公园内的最高点。该公园占地379平方英里，于1978年11月10日被指定为国家公园。如果你还想多方面地了解恶地国家公园，可以参观公园内的博物馆藏品，那里有超过360，000件物品等待你去探索！

Badlands National Park's 45th anniversary

The strange stripes in our homepage image reveal tiers of fossil beds in Badlands National Park in South Dakota. Beneath the multicolored surface lies the land's history, including the remains of ancient horses, camels, tigers, and rhinos. The barren landscape, dotted with pinnacles and prairies, was formed by two geological processes: deposition, where the layered rocks were gradually stacked up on top of each other by inland seas, winds, and rivers over millions of years, and erosion, which began about 500,000 years ago. The Red Shirt Table, at 3,340 feet, is the highest point in the park, which was established on this day in 1978. It protects 379 square miles of rocky buttes, pinnacles, and prairies. This inhospitable terrain was called 'Mako Sica,' or 'land bad' by the Oglala Lakota people, who have lived here for hundreds of years. Still thirsty for knowledge? Visit the national park's museum collection. There are over 360,000 objects that have a lot more to reveal!