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What factors helped cause the dust bowl

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Economic depression coupled with extended drought, unusually high temperatures, poor agricultural practices and the resulting wind erosion all contributed to making the Dust Bowl. The seeds of the Dust Bowl may have been sowed during the early 1920s. :)

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Severe dust storms

Severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent the aeolian processes (wind erosion) caused the phenomenon.

*Caused by farmers poorly managing their crop rotations, causing the ground to dry up and turn into dust*

extended drought, unusually high temperatures, poor agricultural practices and the resulting wind erosion basically

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