Landform
A Niobrara chalk badland standing in shortgrass — white walls, a keyhole of sky, and prairie to the horizon.
Field note
The walls are cream chalk, not red canyon stone. You walk a short path and the badland opens like a ruin. Oakley is the nearest town. This plate is Little Jerusalem Badlands State Park, not Monument Rocks one county east and not the South Dakota Badlands.
Little Jerusalem is Niobrara chalk standing in shortgrass: white walls, a keyhole of sky. Oakley is near. This plate is the Kansas state park, not Monument Rocks and not the South Dakota Badlands.
