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Title: UNITED STATES "DUST BOWL"
Caption: (a) Dust storm approaching Elkhart, Kansas, on May 21, 1937. Sometimes called "black blizzards" because of their color, these storms eroded topsoil from cropland in the Southern High Plains. (Getty Images, Inc.)
Keywords: atmosphere, winds, windstorms, sediments, erosion, soils