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Noun (plural)
/ˈbadˌlandz/,
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badlands, plural;
  1. Extensive tracts of heavily eroded, uncultivable land with little vegetation

  2. A barren plateau region of the western US, mainly in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska, south of the Black Hills, noted for its harsh terrain

  1. deeply eroded barren land
  2. Bad Lands: an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska
  3. A badlands (also badland) is a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded by wind and water. It can resemble malpaís, a terrain of volcanic rock. Canyons, ravines, gullies, hoodoos and other such geological forms are common in badlands. ...
  4. Badlands was the first album by the band of the same name. This album featured Ray Gillen and Eric Singer, who previously played together in Black Sabbath. This album also features guitarist Jake E. Lee and bassist Greg Chaisson. ...
  5. "Badlands" was the leadoff track on Bruce Springsteen's fourth studio album Darkness on the Edge of Town, and its second single.
  6. Steven Grant (born October 22, 1953) is an American comic-book writer best known for his 1985-1986 Marvel Comics mini-series Punisher, with artist Mike Zeck (collected as '''', ISBN 0-87135-394-6) and for his creator-owned character Whisper.
  7. Oregon Badlands Wilderness is a wilderness area located east of Bend in Deschutes and Crook counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. It was created by the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, which was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 30, 2009.
  8. Badlands is a 1973 film written and directed by Terrence Malick, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. Warren Oates and Ramon Bieri are also featured. Malick has a small speaking part although he does not receive an acting credit.
  9. The following is a list of episodes for the BKN animated series Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders.
  10. Several films and episodes of the science fiction franchise Star Trek were set in distinct regions of space. Some of these fictional locations exhibited anomalous physical properties. Others were defined as sensitive buffer zones under political accords.
  11. John Sloman was born as John Anthony David Sloman in Cardiff (South Wales), 26 April 1957 as the eldest of six children. He is a former member of Trapper, Pulse, Lone Star, and Uriah Heep. He was lead vocalist for Uriah Heep between 1979-1981, and during that time was on the album Conquest.
  12. Badlands is a 1989 arcade game published by Atari Games. It was later ported by Domark under the Tengen label to a number of home computers. It is set in the aftermath of a nuclear war and races around abandoned wastelands with many hazards. Three gun-armed cars race around to win prizes.
  13. The Badlands are a mountain range in Riverside County, California. They are also known as the San Timoteo Badlands.
  14. Black Hills | Coteau des Prairies | Coteau du Missouri | Pine Ridge | Siouxland
  15. From a French term meaning "bad country for travel." The term applied to barren areas of South Dakota, as well as other inhospitable western locations.
  16. Very irregular topography resulting from wind and water erosion of sedimentary rock.
  17. Badlands are barren, severely eroded places on Earth where the soft rock layers are sculpted into beautiful forms. These exposed rock layers are often wonderful places in which to find fossils. They're called badlands because the land is useless for farming and many other human purposes. ...
  18. These are barren, arid areas that are characterized by dramatic pyramid-like towers of eroded rock called hoodoos. Erosion is active, and results from rain, freeze-thaw cycles and wind-borne sand. Badlands occur throughout the Canadian prairies. ...
  19. Anywhere in your home that is out of bounds to rats (because they do bad things there) that they therefore spend all their free range time trying to sneak into.
  20. Region of high hills with many colorful rock layers and jagged edges.
  21. are a rocky and hilly valley on the northern borders of the Septimus Heap world, where DomDaniel once practised his dark magic in an observatory atop a hill. Simon Heap now lives there with Lucy Gringe. ...
  22. This is an area of space where plasma storms make travel difficult; the Maquis ship and Voyager are transported to the Delta Quadrant while they are here. (Caretaker)
  23. A region nearly devoid of vegetation where erosion, instead of carving hills and valleys of the familiar type, has cut the land into an intricate maze of narrow ravines and sharp crests and pinnacles. Travel across such a region is almost impossible, hence the name. (See P1. XXII, p. 110.)
  24. Intricately stream-dissected topography characterized by a very fine drainage network with high drainage densities and short, steep slopes. They have little or no vegetative cover overlying consolidated or poorly cemented clays or silts.