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:

    “This will be a black baby born in Mississippi, and thus where ever he is born he will be in prison ... If I go to jail now it may help hasten that day when my child and all children will be free.”
    —Diane Nash (b. 1938)

    “No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.”
    —J.G. (John Gabriel)