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In addition to soil being depleted of its nutrients, what other phenomena occurred during the Dust Bowl?

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SEVERE drought!

And the eroding soil led to massive dust storms, economic devastation, high temperatures, poor agricultural practices and the resulting wind erosion.

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Crops began to fail with the onset of drought in 1931, exposing the bare, over-plowed farmland. Without deep-rooted prairie grasses to hold the soil in place, it began to blow away. Eroding soil led to massive dust storms and economic devastation—especially in the Southern Plains

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