What Are These Strange Objects Found in the Badlands of Alberta?【4K】

This natural area in southeastern Alberta, Canada is known as Red Rock Coulee.

The main feature of this natural landscape is the large reddish boulders that are scattered across the badlands and coulees.

The large concretions are present in the Late Cretaceous Bearpaw Formation.

The formation lies close to surface under a thin layer of soil, which has been sculpted by erosion exposing the boulders and creating areas of badlands.

The Bearpaw Formation was deposited in the Western Interior Seaway and it includes a variety of marine fossils.

The concretions formed after the sediments had been deposited, when mineral cement primarily calcite and ironstone, precipitated around shell, bone, and other biological debris.

The concretions grew outward as circulating waters deposited more layers of cement.

The cement makes the concretions resistant to erosion compared to the surrounding sediments, and the iron minerals give them their reddish color.

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