This morning I had a shower reverie involving the references to Vera Lynne in Pink Floyd's The Wall.
Sting irrevocably besmirched the word "Synchronicity," but that's the word for what we have here, Jimmy.

I have a vague, hazy memory from one of the Richard Hammond Weather Documentaries that this is why deserts are super important for the ecosystem too; because the wind causes the sand particles to knock about and go all crazy, shooting them up into the atmosphere where they can mix with the clouds as nucleation sites to form raindrops.

Even now there are a ton of nutrients in the ground there. Prevailing winds grab the airborne stuff and shoots it across the Atlantic, and maybe 2% of it - still tons and tons and tons of the stuff - helps fertilize the Amazon.