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:

    a long shot at long odds, a black mare
    By Hatred out of Envy by Despair.
    James Vincent Cunningham (1911–1985)

    The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)