Aeolian processes
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Aeolian processes, also spelled eolian, pertain to wind activity in the study of geology and weather and specifically to the wind's ability to shape the surface of the Earth. Winds may erode, transpor
Wind erosion of soil at the foot of Chimborazo, Ecuador
Sand blowing off a crest in the Kelso Dunes of the Mojave Desert, California
Dust blown by the wind from an Iowa field that was not planted, 1890.
Effects of wind erosion at Giza pyramid, May 1972
Dust Bowl
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The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. The phenomenon was caused by a combination of
Aeolian processes
…Khamsin dust from Libya, Egypt and Levant in Spring associated with extratropical cyclones. Dust Bowl event in US, carried sand eastward. 5500 tons were deposited in Chicago area. Sirocco sandy winds from Africa/Sahara blowing north into South Europe…
Arthur Rothstein's Farmer and Sons Walking in the Face of a Dust Storm, a Resettlement Administration photograph taken in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, in April 1936
A dust storm approaches Stratford, Texas, in 1935.
A dust storm; Spearman, Texas, April 14, 1935
Heavy black clouds of dust rising over the Texas Panhandle, Texas, c. 1936