Dust Bowl
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The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon. The drought came in three waves, 1934, 1936, and 1939–40, but some regions of the High Plains experienced drought conditions for as many as eight years.
The period is represented in the iconic photo Migrant Mother (1936).
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See also
- U.S. Route 66 (notable Dust Bowl migration route to California)
- 1936 North American heat wave
- Great Plains Shelterbelt
- Ogallala Aquifer
- Notable documentaries
- The Dust Bowl (2012 documentary by Ken Burns)
- The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936 documentary)
- International
- Palliser's Triangle (semiarid area of Canada)
- Goyder's Line (semiarid area of Australia)
- General
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