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:
“Here’s neither bush nor shrub to bear off any weather at all. And another storm brewing, I hear it sing i’ the wind. Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. If it should thunder as it did before, I know not where to hide my head. Yond same cloud cannot choose but fall by pailfuls.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)