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:
“Swing low swing low sweet sweet chariot.
Nothing but a plain black boy.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)