 This is Hell's Half Acre, the most intriguing landform between Casper and Shoshone Wyoming. Hell's Half Acre is actually about 320 acres of colorful sedimentary formations eroded by water and wind and the towers, spires, and an impressive variety of other unlikely shapes. It's a geological mishmash, partly because it's on a boundary where, longer ago, the earth fractured in a so-called Thrust Vault. In the process, rock layers got crumpled and mixed. Hell's Half Acre is also a sag or low spot in what would otherwise join the bighorn and Laramie Mountains into one continuous north-south range. You can see at least four different geological formations, burying in texture from shale to sandstone, and burying in color from gray or green to red, pink and yellow. Fossils, coal, buffalo bones, and Indian artifacts have been recovered here. It's also been the location of a science fiction movie, Starship Troopers. Whether you find Hell's Half Acre eerie or alien, I personally find it beautiful. This has been Tom Heald for the Cooperative Extension Service of the University of Wyoming, exploring the nature of Wyoming.