Red shards litter a hillside in the badlands of the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness of northwest New Mexico.

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Red shards litter a hillside in the badlands of the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness of northwest New Mexico. Some geologists say they are a layer of clay that was baked into brick by subterreanean coal beds that caught fire; others say they are the clinkers of the coal itself.

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Size: 4284px × 2844px
Location: Road 7290, Navajo Indian Reservation, Farmington, New Mexico, USA
Photo credit: © Ken Barber / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: badlands, bisti, clinkers, geology, mexico, red, shards, travel