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What Caused the Dust Bowl in the US Midwest in the 1930's?
By Rachelle Oblack, About.com
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DUST BOWL The term given to the area of the Great Plains including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico that was most greatly affected during the Great Drought of the 1930's. Related term: drought ...
For example, farming in some parts of Australia expanded into marginal agricultural areas during decades of good rainfall. However, many of these areas turned to dust bowls during the poor growing seasons associated with a downturn in the long-term ...
 See also: Weather, Dust, Fahrenheit, Clouds, Air
  
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