User:Dpbsmith/Gooseberry Badlands

The Gooseberry Badlands is a scenic area, thirty miles west of Worland, Wyoming, managed by the Worland Field Office of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management The effect of erosion on the sedimentary rocks has created steep-sided cliffs, hoodoos, towers and pedestal in many fanciful shapes, "painted" with bands of pastel browns, yellows, tans, red, and grays.

The Badlands are the result of differential erosion of the hard sandstone and softer mudstone in the rock layer known as the Willwood Formation. Mudstone under sandstone erodes away, leaving harder sandstone as a cap, partially protecting the mudstone from further erosion.