The best-known example of human-induced soil erosion is the "Dust Bowl" of the 1930s in the North American prairies.

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The Dust Bowl was indeed a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s, largely due to drought and decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops, or other soil conservation techniques, leading to massive soil erosion.

The Best-Known Example of Human-Induced Soil Erosion Is the "Dust