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Alaska
Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.
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Alliance, Nebraska
Alliance is a city in Box Butte County, in the northwestern part of the state of Nebraska, in the Great Plains region of the United States.
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Amarillo, Texas
Amarillo is the 14th-most populous city in the state of Texas, United States.
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Amphibole
Amphibole is an important group of generally dark-colored, inosilicate minerals, forming prism or needlelike crystals, composed of double chain tetrahedra, linked at the vertices and generally containing ions of iron and/or magnesium in their structures.
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Asarco
ASARCO LLC (American Smelting and Refining Company) is a mining, smelting, and refining company based in Tucson, Arizona, which mines and processes primarily copper.
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Biome
A biome is a community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in.
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Boise City, Oklahoma
Boise City is a city in and the county seat of Cimarron County, Oklahoma, United States.
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Browning, Montana
Browning (originally Browning Indian Agency) is a town in Glacier County, Montana.
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Buffalo wallow
A buffalo wallow or bison wallow is a natural topographical depression in the flat prairie land that holds rain water and runoff.
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Cattle
Cattle—colloquially cows—are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.
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Chadron, Nebraska
Chadron is a city in Dawes County, in the state of Nebraska in the Great Plains region of the United States.
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Cheyenne, Wyoming
Cheyenne is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Wyoming and the county seat of Laramie County.
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Cimarron County, Oklahoma
Cimarron County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.
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Clovis, New Mexico
Clovis is the county seat of Curry County, New Mexico, United States, with a population of 37,775 as of the 2010 census, and a 2014 estimated population of 39,860.
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Colby, Kansas
Colby is a city in and the county seat of Thomas County, Kansas, United States.
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Colorado
Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.
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Denver
Denver, officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado.
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Depopulation of the Great Plains
The depopulation of the Great Plains refers to the large-scale migration of people from rural areas of the Great Plains of the United States to more urban areas and to the east and west coasts during the 20th century.
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Dodge City, Kansas
Dodge City is the county seat of Ford County, Kansas, United States, named after nearby Fort Dodge.
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Dust storm
A dust storm is a meteorological phenomenon common in arid and semi-arid regions.
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Eastern New Mexico
Eastern New Mexico is a physiographic subregion within the U.S. state of New Mexico.
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Eastern Plains
The Eastern Plains of Colorado refers to a region of the U.S. state of Colorado east of the Rocky Mountains and east of the population centers of the Front Range.
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Farallon Plate
The Farallon Plate was an ancient oceanic plate that began subducting under the west coast of the North American Plate—then located in modern Utah—as Pangaea broke apart during the Jurassic period.
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Fort Morgan, Colorado
Fort Morgan is the home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Morgan County, Colorado, United States.
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Garden City, Kansas
Garden City is a city in and the county seat of Finney County, Kansas, United States.
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Garnet
Garnets are a group of silicate minerals that have been used since the Bronze Age as gemstones and abrasives.
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Geology (journal)
Geology is a peer-reviewed publication of the Geological Society of America (GSA).
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Goodland, Kansas
Goodland is a city in and the county seat of Sherman County, Kansas, United States.
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Great American Desert
The term Great American Desert was used in the 19th century to describe the western part of the Great Plains east of the Rocky Mountains in North America to about the 100th meridian.
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Great Plains
The Great Plains (sometimes simply "the Plains") is the broad expanse of flat land (a plain), much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie in the United States and east of the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. and Canada.
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Guymon, Oklahoma
Guymon is a city in and the county seat of Texas County, Oklahoma.
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Hays, Kansas
Hays is a city in and the county seat of Ellis County, Kansas, United States.
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Helianthus
Helianthus or sunflower is a genus of plants comprising about 70 species Flora of North America.
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Hobbs, New Mexico
Hobbs is a city in Lea County, New Mexico, United States.
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Kansas
Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States.
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Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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La Junta, Colorado
La Junta is the city that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Otero County, Colorado, United States.
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Las Vegas, New Mexico
Las Vegas is a city in and the county seat of San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States.
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Liberal, Kansas
Liberal is the county seat of Seward County, Kansas, United States.
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List of ecoregions in the United States (EPA)
This list of ecoregions in the United States provides an overview of United States ecoregions designated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC).
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Llano Estacado
Llano Estacado, often translated as Staked Plains, is a region in the Southwestern United States that encompasses parts of eastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas.
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Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock is a city in and the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, United States.
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Maize
Maize (Zea mays subsp. mays, from maíz after Taíno mahiz), also known as corn, is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.
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Mica
The mica group of sheet silicate (phyllosilicate) minerals includes several closely related materials having nearly perfect basal cleavage.
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Midland, Texas
Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Texas, United States, on the Southern Plains of the state's western area.
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Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the American Midwest, Middle West, or simply the Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2").
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Natural gas
Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or helium.
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Nebraska
Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States.
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New Mexico
New Mexico (Nuevo México, Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern Region of the United States of America.
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North American Prairies Province
The North American Prairies Province is a large grassland floristic province within the North American Atlantic Region, a floristic region within the Holarctic Kingdom.
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Odessa, Texas
Odessa is a city in and the county seat of Ector County, Texas, United States.
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Ogallala Aquifer
The Ogallala Aquifer is a shallow water table aquifer surrounded by sand, silt, clay and gravel located beneath the Great Plains in the United States.
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Ogallala, Nebraska
Ogallala is a city in Keith County, Nebraska, United States.
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma (Uukuhuúwa, Gahnawiyoˀgeh) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.
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Oklahoma Panhandle
The Oklahoma Panhandle is the extreme northwestern region of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, consisting of Cimarron County, Texas County and Beaver County, from west to east.
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Opuntia
Opuntia, commonly called prickly pear, is a genus in the cactus family, Cactaceae.
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Pecos, Texas
Pecos is the largest city in and the county seat of Reeves County, Texas, United States.
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Petroleum
Petroleum is a naturally occurring, yellow-to-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth's surface.
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Population density
Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.
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Portales, New Mexico
Portales is a city in and the county seat of Roosevelt County, New Mexico, United States.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) is the official scientific journal of the National Academy of Sciences, published since 1915.
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Ranch
A ranch is an area of land, including various structures, given primarily to the practice of ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle or sheep for meat or wool.
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Rocky Mountains
The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.
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Roswell, New Mexico
Roswell is a city in New Mexico.
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Sabinoso Wilderness
The Sabinoso Wilderness is a area in San Miguel County, New Mexico.
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Santa Rosa, New Mexico
Santa Rosa is a city in and the county seat of Guadalupe County, New Mexico, United States.
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Scottsbluff, Nebraska
Scottsbluff is a city in Scotts Bluff County, in the western part of the state of Nebraska, in the Great Plains region of the United States.
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Shortgrass prairie
The shortgrass prairie is an ecosystem located in the Great Plains of North America.
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Shrubland
Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterised by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes.
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Sidney, Nebraska
Sidney is a city in and the county seat of Cheyenne County, Nebraska, United States.
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South Dakota
South Dakota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Steppe
In physical geography, a steppe (p) is an ecoregion, in the montane grasslands and shrublands and temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands biomes, characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes.
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Subduction
Subduction is a geological process that takes place at convergent boundaries of tectonic plates where one plate moves under another and is forced or sinks due to gravity into the mantle.
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Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
Temperate grasslands, savannahs, and shrublands are terrestrial biomes whose predominant vegetation consists of grass and/or shrubs.
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Texas
Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.
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Texas High Plains AVA
The Texas High Plains AVA is an American Viticultural Area located on the Llano Estacado region of Texas.
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Texas Panhandle
The Texas Panhandle is a region of the U.S. state of Texas consisting of the northernmost 26 counties in the state.
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Tibetan Plateau
The Tibetan Plateau, also known in China as the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau or the Qing–Zang Plateau or Himalayan Plateau, is a vast elevated plateau in Central Asia and East Asia, covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai in western China, as well as part of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir, India.
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Tucumcari, New Mexico
Tucumcari (pronounced like "TWO-come-carry") is a city in and the county seat of Quay County, New Mexico, United States.
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West Texas
West Texas is a loosely defined part of the U.S. state of Texas, generally encompassing the arid and semiarid lands west of a line drawn between the cities of Wichita Falls, Abilene, and Del Rio.
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Western short grasslands
The Western short grasslands is a temperate grassland ecoregion of the United States.
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Western United States
The Western United States, commonly referred to as the American West, the Far West, or simply the West, traditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States.
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Wheat
Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain which is a worldwide staple food.
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Wind chill
Wind-chill or windchill, (popularly wind chill factor) is the lowering of body temperature due to the passing-flow of lower-temperature air.
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Wind farm
A wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity.
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Wind power in Texas
Wind power in Texas consists of many wind farms with a total installed nameplate capacity of 22,637 MW (Q3 2017) from over 40 different projects.
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Wyoming
Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the western United States.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Plains_(United_States)
