Black Soil

Black soil may refer to:

  • Chernozem, fertile black soils found in eastern Europe, Russia and the Canadian prairies
  • Vertisol, dark cracking soils with a high clay content found between 50° N and 45° S of the equator
  • Terra preta (Portuguese,) “black earth” or soil of Amazon river basin

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or soil:

    Better have a black face than be worried about black deeds.
    Robert N. Lee, and Rowland V. Lee. Tom Clink (Ernest Cossart)

    There will be mud on the carpet tonight
    and blood in the gravy as well.
    The wifebeater is out,
    the childbeater is out
    eating soil and drinking bullets from a cup.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)