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:
“Street lamps come out, and lean at corners, awry,
Casting black shadows, oblique and intense....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)