The dust bowl
Description
The line between fertile grassland and desert wasteland can be very thin. What was once green and verdant can become desolate and barren in a blink of geologic time. In the 1930s, a severe drought and poor agricultural methods turned an area of the southwestern United States into a virtual dust bowl, as valuable topsoil was blown hundreds and thousands of miles away. This video uses archival footage and interviews with survivors to paint a dramatic portrait of the Dust Bowl era.
Runtime
10 minutes
Subjects
- Wind erosion (1)
- Crops and soils (2)
- Environmental disasters (1)
- Dust storms (3)
- Earth sciences (341)
- Droughts (27)
- Geology (180)
- Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 (6)
Geography
Genre
Database
Alexander Street
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