0 an area of land where the ground is very dry and where the air is often full of dust
1 an area of land that is so dry that it is impossible to grow crops there:
When alluvial soil fills an estuary, when a dust bowl is created, when epidemics or epizootics occur, tremendous pressures are brought to bear upon living things.
I would call attention to what produced the original dust bowl.
That was what produced the dust bowl—unregulated, thoroughly greedy farming of the land.
It is also interesting that countries which have suffered a dust bowl have tried to reintroduce forestry and farming.
Does he not understand that these people view themselves as now becoming engulfed in a reservoir of despair, or as the dust bowl of society?
Soil erosion and dust bowl conditions set in and the desert gradually encroaches.
After only some months, it has deteriorated to a dust bowl.
What produced the dust bowl there?