Soil erosion, brownout
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Soil erosion, brownout
Image: © Jim Bain Taken: 16 Mar 2007
Days of dry warm south westerly winds and bare fields provide the ideal conditions for windblown soil erosion. The fine particles of sandy soil become airborne and get into everything. Here by Southfield a plantation of young trees is being sand blasted. Further downwind, same soil Image
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Image Location
Latitude
56.387178
Longitude
-2.91327