The Carrizo Badlands are a landform of

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that lie within

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in eastern

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, and in the Carrizo Impact Area in western

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, in

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Geography

The badlands lie south of the Vallecito Mountains and Fish Creek Mountains, and north of the

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and Coyote Mountains. The Carrizo Badlands are bisected by the Carrizo Valley, created by the erosion of the badlands by Carrizo Creek, and ending in the Carrizo Wash, 3 miles east of the site of the old Carrizo Creek Station.USGS topographic maps; Carrizo Mountain, Sweeney Pass, Arroyo Tapiado Vallecito Creek is a major tributary of Carrizo Creek. ;Features One of the features within the Carrizo Badlands are the

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in Arroyo Tapiado.

References

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