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27 lip 2023 · In the latter half of the 1930s the southern plains were devastated by drought, wind erosion, and great dust storms. Some of the storms rolled far eastward, darkening skies all the way to the Gulf and Atlantic coasts.
Dust Bowl – okres (lata 1931–1938), w którym dziewiętnaście stanów na obszarze Wielkich Równin w Stanach Zjednoczonych zostało dotkniętych katastrofą ekologiczną, będącą skutkiem suszy i silnej erozji gleb. Została ona spowodowana wieloletnią suszą i intensywną eksploatacją rolniczą gruntów.
A dust storm approaches Stratford, Texas, in 1935. The Dust Bowl area lies principally west of the 100th meridian on the High Plains, characterized by plains that vary from rolling in the north to flat in the Llano Estacado. Elevation ranges from 2,500 ft (760 m) in the east to 6,000 ft (1,800 m) at the base of the Rocky Mountains.
THE DUST BOWL by Ken Burns chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the “Great Plow-Up,” followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation.
27 paź 2009 · Roughly 2.5 million people left the Dust Bowl states—Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma—during the 1930s. It was one of the largest migrations in American history.
30 lis 2006 · Some geographers and meteorologists have ascribed the Dust Bowl to increased wind speeds and an increased frequency of cyclone passages in the 1930s as compared to other significant droughts...
21 lis 2020 · So when drought conditions occurred between 1930 and 1936 in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and New Mexico, the soil simply dried up and blew away. Poor farming practices included not only overplanting of crops but overgrazing livestock.
