Meaning of Badlands | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An arid terrain characterized by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks.
2. Badlands National Park, a national park in South Dakota.

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“Not only do the Bad Lands present⟳ a most attractive field to the student of erosion and of the origin of earth forms, but their deathlike solitudes have⟳ been made to yield⟳ the most wonderful procession of strange extinct animals yet unearthed by geologists.”

“No one has ever described better the shaggy badlands and cabbage-patches round the edges of a city, where the debris of civilization piles up ramshackle suburbs in which starve⟳ and scheme all manner of human detritus.”

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