Dust emission from Soda Lake in the Mojave Desert, February 6, 2001. The dust is composed mainly of evaporite minerals that chemically precipitated on the surface of the dry lake. Photo by Rob Fulton.
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The general information page describes general characteristics of dust events that may have happened in your area. You can also access other helpful sites that discuss dust events, how dust storms are generated, and other useful information.
If you are a researcher with data (or an interest in data) on dust events, you can access our database of dust events, sources, and depositional data through the data page. Here you will find a number of events with the data that we have available.
Information about the people who contributed to the creation of this database, and the citation for the database, can be found on the credits page.