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Dust Bowl
dust-bowl
dust-bowl An area of the Great Plains region, USA, where a combination of drought and inappropriate farming practices, especially an expansion of wheat production, led to severe
deflation and soil erosion during the middle 1930s. More generally, any region where deflation of cultivable land occurs.
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Fed: Drought won't turn ag land into dust bowl - research
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 11/2/2006; 655 words
; ...Drought won't turn ag land into dust bowl - research By Robin Pash CANBERRA...these certainly aren't the biggest dust storms." With this season's wheat...modern farming techniques meant the "dust bowls" that typified previous droughts...
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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MOTHER OF ALL DUST BOWLS PREDICTED SCIENTISTS SEE EVIDENCE FOR DECADE-LONG DROUGHT.(Local)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 12/26/1998; ; 674 words
; ...Writer BOULDER -- A drought comparable to the 1930s Dust Bowl or a decade-long mega-drought could sweep the Great...the longevity and frequency of major droughts like the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl was a drought of nearly eight years that turned...
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Expect more Dust Bowls, scientists say
News Wire article from: AP Online; 12/15/1998; ; 531 words
; ...1998 WASHINGTON (AP) _ As bad as the Dust Bowl was in the 1930s, the Great Plains...scientists warned on Tuesday. Even with the Dust Bowl, Great Plains droughts have been...rainfall patterns. Droughts as bad as the Dust Bowl, which lasted eight years, occur...
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Of wheat bubbles & dust bowls
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; 4/29/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl." After the war, the price plunged...On May 10, 1934, a collection of dust storms moved over the Midwest carrying, Egan says, "three tons of dust for every American alive." It dumped...
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PREHISTORIC DUST BOWLS OCCURRED IN U.S.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 8/2/2004; 301 words
; ...United Press International 08-02-2004 Prehistoric dust bowls occurred in U.S. DURHAM, N.C., Aug 02, 2004...chemistry of the lakes would change. We would see these dust-bowl effects. And then, within several decades to a century...
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 "Chicago Sun-Times (IL)")
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Steinbeck's Dust Bowl town proves a survivor
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times (IL); 3/30/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Scholars are unsure why Steinbeck chose Sallisaw for his Dust Bowl book. Some think it is no more profound that the poetic...state as archetypical farmers -- it was far from the Dust Bowls of the panhandle. "We didn't dry up and blow away...
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AURORA `DUST BOWL' DROUGHT COULD MAKE CITY'S HOME MARKET DRY UP, EXPERT SAYS.(Business)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 2/14/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS Parts of Aurora could turn into ``dust bowls'' in the coming months if another dry, hot summer...yards are just dirt and not maintained, they can become dust bowls.'' Jeff Whiton, president of Lennar/U S Home Colorado...
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Vic: Appeal launched for animals facing paddock "dust bowls"
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 2/13/2007; 518 words
; ...2007 Vic: Appeal launched for animals facing paddock "dust bowls" By Danny Rose MELBOURNE, Feb 13 AAP - An appeal has...The difficulty is that all our paddocks in Victoria are dust bowls," Dr Wirth said as he launched the Drought Animal Aid...
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 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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FROM DUST BOWLS TO FIELDS OF DREAMS YOUTHS GET MAJOR LEAGUE UPGRADES.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 12/18/2005; 700+ words
; ...1987 and agreed there were problems at the old complex. ``When we started playing there, people used to call it the dust bowl,'' he said. ``My kids were rolling around in the dirt.'' Now, the area that houses a five-field complex...
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`DUST BOWL' PROVIDES COMPELLING TV.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 3/31/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...basis. The program is Surviving the Dust Bowl (8 tonight, KRMA-Channel 6...detailing how the area survived the Dust Bowl. And one important question is not fully answered: Could the Dust Bowl happen again? Still, Surviving...
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Dust Bowl
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
DUST BOWL Farmers across the Great Plains longed for...force winds. On April 14, massive clouds of dust blotted out the sun over western Kansas...wheat and licking up the topsoil. Then the dust thickened into low, heavy, dirt-laden...
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Living in the Dust Bowl (1934, by Anne Marie Low)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
LIVING IN THE DUST BOWL (1934, by Anne Marie Low) The settlement...into thick, dark, low-riding clouds of dust. In April, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma...Mexico were all hit with a devastating dust storm. The dust clouds assaulted everything...
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dust bowl
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
dust bowl • n. an area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded, esp. as a consequence of drought...farming practice. ∎ ( the Dust Bowl ) an area of Oklahoma, Kansas, and...
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dust-bowl
Book article from: A Dictionary of Ecology
dust-bowl An area of the Great Plains region, USA, where a combination of drought and inappropriate farming practices, especially an expansion...
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Dust Storms
Book article from: World of Earth Science
...storms is the historical event called Dust Bowl in the 1930s, which was a disaster...ecological and societal consequences. The Dust Bowl took place in the southern Great...conservation and for rehabilitation of the Dust Bowl started, including seeding large...
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