Whittled by a half million years of wind and rain, the haunting claystone hills and buttes of Badlands National Park rise above the surrounding sea of grasslands.
Unlike their more massive counterparts, sunlike stars are thought to die gracefully by ejecting their outer gaseous layers in a nonexplosive process that takes about 10,000 years.
Occurring in yellow, golden and brown colors, Baltic Amber is also known as Succinite after its parent tree pinus succinfera that was common in the tertiary period, some 50 million years ago.