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dust bowl

Area in the Great Plains region of North America (Texas to Kansas) that suffered extensive wind erosion as the result of drought and poor farming practice in once-fertile soil. Much of the topsoil was blown away in the droughts of the 1930s and the 1980s.

Similar dust bowls are being formed in many areas today, noticeably across Africa, because of overcropping and overgrazing.
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