Badlands are found in several areas of North America. The constant erosion of the light sedimentary soil and clay means that there are many unique and strange geomorphic features and topographies which have intrigued people since the arrival of the First Nations. Winds and heavy rains carve channels in the rocks relatively quickly. The effect of wind and water on these landscapes means that they are constantly changing. They were formed during the end of the last Ice Age when glacial meltwater created valleys and steeps slopes out of the sedimentary rock and clay soil. The Badlands are desolate terrain of gullies, chasms, sinkholes, and hills. The location of the geological wonder is very remote, in an area that has been traditionally the home of the Siska First Nation People, often known as the Blackfoot tribes. The Badlands’ Guardian is near Medicine Hat in the south-east of Alberta and not far from the border with the USA. It is listed as the seventh of the top ten Google Earth finds by Time magazine. The Badlands image is at the border of the US and Canada.
The location of Medicine Hat is in Cypress County in Alberta, Canada. Residents consider the town the sunniest place in Canada. They altered the suggested 'Guardian of the Badlands' to become Badlands Guardian. The Badlands Guardian is a geomorphological feature found near an urban center called Medicine Hat, also known as Gas City. Out of 50 names submitted, seven were suggested to the Cypress County Council. In 2006 suitable names were canvassed by CBC Radio One program As It Happens. It has sparse vegetation and soft, clay soil. Now, these softs hills are beautiful in their own right, but it's whats above that's really exciting. If you search for pictures of the Badlands Guardian on google earth street view, you'll simply see lush, rolling hills. It receives little but intense showers of rain. In Alberta, Canada there is a view that is breath taking from the ground and above. The County completely surrounds the City of Medicine Hat and the Town of Redcliff. The area covered by the Badlands Guardian is an arid land. 1 Cypress County Settlement Updated: Cypress County is a municipal district in southeastern Alberta, Canada. The precise location of the Badlands Guardian on Google Earth is at the coordinates (50° 0'38.20"N, 110° 06' 48.32"W). The Guardian is regarded as one of Google Earth’s most remarkable finds. The feature was discovered in 2005 by Lynn Hickox during the Google Earth project when they used satellite imagery and reproduced them in 3-D which led to the identification of the natural world. Its age is estimated to be in the hundreds of years at a minimum. Although the image appears to be a convex feature, it is actually concave – that is, a valley, which is formed by erosion on a stratum of clay, and is an instance of the Hollow-Face illusion. The 'head' may have been created during a short period of fast erosion immediately following intense rainfall. The arid badlands are typified by infrequent but intense rain-showers, sparse vegetation and soft sediments. The head is a drainage feature created through erosion of soft, clay-rich soil by the action of wind and water. This is an analysis of a large facial formation set within a glacial moraine along the southeast corner of Alberta, Canada, known as the Badlands Guardian.
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