Missouri Plateau

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The Missouri Plateau is a high, rolling upland region of the northern Great Plains characterized by grasslands, badlands, and significant fossil-bearing rock formations.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf physiographic region
plateau
borderedBy Central Lowland to the east
Rocky Mountains to the west
characterizedBy badlands
buttes
fossil-bearing rock formations
grasslands
high rolling uplands
mesas
climateType semiarid
contains badlands of North Dakota
badlands of South Dakota
coal deposits
lignite deposits
natural gas fields
oil fields
portions of the Williston Basin
country United States of America
dominantVegetation mixed-grass prairie
shortgrass prairie
drainedBy Little Missouri River
Missouri River
Yellowstone River
elevationRange approximately 600 to 1,500 meters above sea level
extendsInto Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
Wyoming
geologicEraDominantRocks Cretaceous
Tertiary
locatedIn Great Plains
surface form: Northern Great Plains

United States of America
surface form: United States
namedAfter Missouri River
notableFor Cenozoic sedimentary sequences
extensive erosion features
paleontological resources
partOf Great Plains
Great Plains
surface form: Interior Plains
physiographicProvince Great Plains Province
soilType chernozem and related prairie soils
usedFor dryland farming
energy development
ranching

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North Dakota hasRegion Missouri Plateau
Theodore Roosevelt National Park locatedIn Missouri Plateau
this entity surface form: Badlands region
Grand River partOf Missouri Plateau
subject surface form: Grand River (South Dakota)
this entity surface form: Missouri Plateau physiographic region