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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