Soil type; very fertile, black-coloured soil containing a high percentage of humus
Chernozem
Chernozemic soil
Mollisol (USDA-NRCS)
Used in
WRB, other
WRB code
CH
Profile
AhBC
Parent material
Loess
Climate
Humid continental
Chernozem (from Russian: чернозём, tr. chernozyom, IPA:[tɕɪrnɐˈzʲɵm]; "black ground"),[1][2] also called black soil, regur soil or black cotton soil, is a black-colored soil containing a high percentage of humus[3] (4% to 16%) and high percentages of phosphorus and ammonia compounds.[4] Chernozem is very fertile soil and can produce high agricultural yields with its high moisture-storage capacity.[a] Chernozems are a Reference Soil Group of the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB)
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Chernozem (from Russian: чернозём, tr. chernozyom, IPA: [tɕɪrnɐˈzʲɵm]; "black ground"), also called black soil, regur soil or black cotton soil, is a...
Tsentral'no-Chernozyomnyy ekonomicheskiy rayon), sometimes called Central-Chernozem Economic Region, is one of 12 economic regions of Russia. This region...
Indo-European languages. In the Eurasian steppe, soils often consist of chernozem. The inner parts of Anatolia in Turkey, Central Anatolia and East Anatolia...
religious symbols; others paint their walls plain, often with clay or chernozem contrasted with yellow soil or limestone. The roofs of religious as well...
underdeveloped, scarcely populated, high-fertility lands often covered with the chernozem soil. The lands were mostly located in the steppes of the Volga region...
Canada's 'Breadbasket' Central Black Earth Region, segment of the Eurasian chernozem belt that lies within Central Russia Grain elevator Palliser's Triangle...
Plateau, and parts of the Eurasian Steppe. Moldova's exceptionally rich Chernozem soil covers around three-quarters of the country's land area. Moldova's...
geoderma.2008.03.008. Dokuchaev, Vasily Vasilyevich (1967). "Russian Chernozem". Jerusalem, Israel: Israel Program for Scientific Translations. Retrieved...
ZB VII. Continental, arid, with warm or hot summers and cold winters Chernozems to serozems Grasslands and temperate deserts ZB VIII. Boreal, cold temperate...
field studies on Russian soils in 1883. His most famous work is Russian Chernozem (1883). As a result of Dokuchaev's research, a number of Russian terms...
reached 3.147 million. In 2015, Harbin had a GDP of RMB 575.12 billion. The chernozem soil in Harbin is one of the most nutrient rich in all of China, making...
northern Saskatchewan. Saskatoon lies on a long belt of rich, potassic chernozem in middle-southern Saskatchewan and is found in the aspen parkland biome...
Black soil may refer to: Chernozem, fertile black soils found in eastern Europe, Russia, India and the Canadian prairies Muck (soil), a soil made up primarily...
Vojvodina is rich in fertile loamy loess soil, covered with a layer of chernozem. The region is divided by the Danube and Tisa rivers into: Bačka in the...
referred to as the Black Sea Region. Its northern part lies within the Chernozem belt (black soil belt) which goes from eastern Croatia (Slavonia), along...
models could not accommodate the large charcoal component present in Chernozems. In 2016 soil science textbooks began addressing the need to abandon long-accepted...
reliable growing season, an abundance of sunshine and exceedingly fertile chernozem soils, southern Siberia is good enough for profitable agriculture, as...
the area suitable for farming, and much of the forest has been cleared. Chernozem soils cover around 70% of the oblast's territory; podsol soils cover 26%...
central belt consisting of the extremely fertile Ukrainian black earth (chernozems) a zone of chestnut and salinized soils As much as two-thirds of the country's...
archaeologists. It was renamed 'dark earth' because of confusion with the chernozem (black earth soils in Russia), whose dark colour is traditionally (not...
The city is mainly built on land made of solonetzic (sodium enriched) chernozem, with a significant amount of underground subsoil water, that frequently...
Razdel and finally northwest until Chernozem, where it is joined by the Boyalashka reka. Downstream of Chernozem its valley widens and river makes meanders...
(14 million acres) of corn. Heilongjiang has vast tracts of black soil (chernozem), one of the most fertile soil types. Since the early 20th century, cultivation...
hydro power plant. The southern part of the city predominately features chernozem and gray forest soils. Repellents are also distributed – hummus-carbonate...
a "principle of comprehensive analysis of the territory" and "Russian Chernozem". In the latter, he introduced the geographical concept of soil, as distinct...
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