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The East and West Mitten Buttes are isolated sandstone landforms in Monument Valley within the Navajo Nation, near the Arizona-Utah border. Erosion left each butte with a prominent tower resembling the thumb of a mitten when viewed from common approaches. Their red sedimentary rock, steep cliffs, an...
Valley of the Gods is a landscape of isolated sandstone buttes, towers, and mesas in San Juan County, southeastern Utah. Weathering and erosion carved these forms from layered sedimentary rock, creating scenery often compared with nearby Monument Valley while retaining a more dispersed and undevelop...
Killdeer Badlands is an eroded badlands area within the Little Missouri National Grassland in western North Dakota, featuring hoodoos and colorful banded sediments in a landscape used by Theodore Roosevelt for ranching in the 1880s.
Two isolated sedimentary buttes in Colorado's Pawnee National Grassland composed of Oligocene-era deposits, reaching roughly 1,640 m elevation and protected as a natural landmark.
Slim Buttes is an isolated mesa and badlands formation in Harding County, South Dakota, site of the 1876 Battle of Slim Buttes, the first U.S. military victory following the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Cave Hills Badlands is a remote badlands and butte landscape in Harding County, South Dakota, containing prehistoric rock art sites and notable for its isolation within the northern Great Plains.
