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Dust Bowl 3 Drought and dust storms
A farmer and his two sons during a dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936, Photo: Arthur Rothstein The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s, particularly in 1934 and 1936. The phenomenon was caused by severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming...
متن کاملFrom Dust Bowl to Green Circles
Social, economic, cultural, environmental, and other forces of change constantly are reshaping our communities, or more precisely, communal relations. An issue of particular concern is the changing significance of locality to the structure of communal relations. Specifically, is the relevance of locality to individuals’ social interactions changing within our modern society? This empirical inve...
متن کاملOn the cause of the 1930s Dust Bowl.
During the 1930s, the United States experienced one of the most devastating droughts of the past century. The drought affected almost two-thirds of the country and parts of Mexico and Canada and was infamous for the numerous dust storms that occurred in the southern Great Plains. In this study, we present model results that indicate that the drought was caused by anomalous tropical sea surface ...
متن کاملThe Enduring Impact of the American Dust Bowl
The 1930’s American Dust Bowl was an environmental catastrophe, associated with massive erosion across parts of the Great Plains. Analyzing new data collected to identify low-, medium-, and high-erosion counties, the Dust Bowl is estimated to have substantially reduced agricultural land values and revenues. During the Great Depression and through at least the 1950’s, there was limited reallocat...
متن کاملPossible deposit of soil dust from the 1930’s U.S. dust bowl identified in Greenland ice
[1] We have identified a dust storm deposit in the GISP2 ice core that most likely originated from the Great Plains region of the United States during the 1930’s ‘Dust Bowl’ era. These results indicate that the Central U.S. can be a significant source of dust to the Greenland ice sheet, especially when the source area is affected by intense drought conditions.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Annals of Iowa
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0003-4827,2473-9006
DOI: 10.17077/0003-4827.12464