black soil
Rich dark loam
Black soil is dark, fertile earth rich in organic matter and nutrients.
The term often refers specifically to chernozem—the deep, humus-rich soil of temperate grasslands prized for agriculture: The black soil of Ukraine produces abundant wheat crops.
In India, black soil denotes the dark cotton-growing soils of the Deccan plateau.
- clayMoldable earth for ceramics
- humusDecayed organic soil matter
- organic matterMaterial from living sources
- siltWaterborne earth particles
- crumblyProne to fragmenting
dark · water retention · cotton farming · cotton belt · wheat belt · carbon sequestration · fertility · crop rotation · growing season · plowing · carbon content · basalt · irrigation · moist · furrow · carbon · earth · decomposed
- Black BeltAlabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina
- Soiltopsoil, subsoil, dirt, loam, earth
- Midwest naturetallgrass prairie, Great Lakes, Great Plains, bison, white-tailed deer
- soil typesloam, clay, silt, peat, topsoil
- soilstopsoil, subsoil, loam, silt, peat
- mineral-rich soilloam, clay, topsoil, compost
black soilsandy soil
Coarse, granular earth
clay soil · sand · gravel · rocky soil · laterite
black soilbarren soil
Earth lacking fertility
poor soil · depleted soil · dead soil · hardpan · subsoil