Little Jerusalem Badlands
County: Logan
Date: Sometime between 1981 and 2010
Photographer: John Charlton/KGS
Place Name: Little Jerusalem Badlands
Short description: Niobrara Chalk hoodoos in the Little Jerusalem Badlands. Little Jerusalem is owned by The Nature Conservancy, which partners with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks & Tourism to make portions of the area, known as Little Jerusalem Badlands State Park, open to the public. The Cretaceous-age Niobrara Chalk in western Kansas was deposited in a massive inland sea that ran north to south across west-central North America about 80 million years ago.
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