"Eight persons were injured during the early-morning rush hour today when 20 vehicles rammed together in blinding dust blowing across Interstate 40 just east of the Amarillo city limits." -Amarillo Globe-Times (04/13/71)
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Texas sand storm, February 20, 1894. |
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Dust devil. |
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Summer cottage on Lake Michigan with sand dune in yard. |
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Wind erosion in cotton field at Big Spring, TX. |
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Soil drifts on highway near Big Spring, TX. |
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The front of a minor "black blizzard" approaching Hays Experiment Station, KS. |
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Abandoned 600-acre field near Lamesa, TX. |
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Wind erosion has removed the surface soil from this field, exposing the less fertile subsoil. |
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Arial photo of dust arising from fields. |
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Sand dune and blowout area south of Reydon, OK. An attempt to stabilize with sorghum failed. |
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Arial photo of dust arising from fields. |
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Wind erosion remnants due to animal walking across wet soil. |
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Eroding soil filling furrows. |
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Blowing sand at Hunters Island, Manhattan, KS. |
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Soil drifting along fence line. |
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The sun is darkened by a dust cloud. |
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Sand dunes encroaching on a field. |
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Emergency tillage was used to try to stop erosion from this field. |
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Eroding soil filling furrows. |
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Young wheat plants blown out by a storm. |
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Dust storm approaching Big Spring, Texas on 16 June 1997. Photo taken by Dr. Weinan Chen. |
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Dust storm approaching Big Spring, Texas on 16 June 1997. Photo taken by Dr. Weinan Chen. |
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A dust storm threatens to take over a village in Senegal. |
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A dust storm obscures a farm in Iowa. |
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A dust storm arises along Interstate Highway in Kansas near the Colorado border. Photo by Ed Skidmore, USDA-ARS. |
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Sand dune in the Sahara Desert, Lybia. Photo taken by E.L. Skidmore in 1980. |
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Sand dune in the Sahara Desert, Lybia. Photo taken by E.L. Skidmore in 1980. |
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Soil is removed from a ditch along side a road. |
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Clear and dusty days at Big Spring, TX.
December, 1970
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Coalinga, California, December 1, 1991 -- Crews cleared burned hulks of cars and trucks off an interstate and tried to identify victims of a pileup that killed 17 people and injured 150 others during a blinding dust storm. |
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"Tangled Wreckage...Dust Takes Toll"
"Eight persons were injured during the early-morning rush hour today when 20 vehicles rammed together in blinding dust blowing across Interstate 40 just east of the Amarillo city limits." -Amarillo Globe-Times (04/13/71)
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Any soil that is loose, dry, bare, and smooth is a candidate to be blown by the wind. If that soil is also unprotected for some distance, it will erode under windy conditions. |
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Most soil movement is within a foot of the ground. |
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Soil moved as saltation and surface creep is deposited in a road ditch in Iowa. |
