Summary Of Great Desert By William Stevens

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The article entitled, Great Plains or Great Desert? The Sea of Dunes Lies in Wait, written by William K. Stevens, describes how, during the Holocene Climate over the past 150 years, droughts have hugely impacted America. According to the author, droughts have converted parts of the Great Plains to seas of windblown sand dunes like in the Sahara. The article further suggests that most of these dunes developed in the 18th and 19th centuries, and are held together today by grazed cattle and a thin layer of vegetation. Stevens illustrates how vast stretches of the Great Plains (Texas, New Mexico, Nebraska, and South Dakota) have classic sand dunes covered by little vegetation, and that the Nebraska Sand Hills is the biggest dune in the western
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