chernozemic

comparative more chernozemic · superlative most chernozemic

1. soil scienceBeing or containing chernozem.

   chernozemic soils

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   The term "chernozemic" is a new word suggested by Dr. Nikiforoff. There seems to be a need for a term which will have the same relation to chernozem as podzolic has to podzol.

   1932, Bulletin, volumes 13-16, American Soil Survey Association, page 53

   They have a dark upper A horizon that usually contains approximately the same amount of organic matter as the geographically associated chernozemic soils.

   1971 December 28, SU Khan, “Distribution and characteristics of organic matter extracted from the black solonetzic and black chernozemic soils of Alberta”, in Soil Science, volume 112, number 6, page 401

   The most important chernozemic regions of the world are the Danube Basin and the southern Soviet Union in Eurasia, the Great Plains of the United States and the zemic prairies of Canada, and the Pampas region of Argentina.

   1982, Philip W Goetz, editor, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, page 1026

   All these soils have chernozemic soil properties (dark colour, A–C profile, high base saturation, bioturbation).

   1999 July 28, M. W. I. Schmidt, “Charred organic carbon in German chernozemic soils”, in European Journal of Soil Science, abstract

1. not comparableOf or pertaining to an order of soils with chernozemic characteristics.

   Soils of the Chernozemic region have been formed under the influence of 10 to 25 inches of annual rainfall.

   1944, Proceedings, Soil Science Society of America, page 42

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   A sequential phosphorus (P) fractionation procedure was used to measure the changes in the labile and stable forms of inorganic and organic P following single broadcast P applications to Canadian Chernozemic soils under cereal cropping.

   1986, BI Wagar, “Changes with time in the form and availability of residual fertilizer phosphorus on Chernozemic soils”, in Canadian Journal of Soil Science, volume 66, number 1, abstract, page 105

   These are soils that occur in the most arid segment of the climatic range of Chernozemic soils and have brownish-colored A horizons.

   1998, The Canadian System of Soil Classification, Canadian Agricultural Services Coordinating Committee, page 63

   The presence of charcoal from vegetation fires was investigated in Axp and Axh horizons originating from a catena of Chernozemic soils south of Hannover using a suite of complementary methods (high energy ultraviolet photo-oxidation, scanning electron microscopy, solic state ¹³C nuclear magnetic resonance, lignin analysis by CuO oxidation).

   1999, I. Kögel-Knabner, “The role of charred organic matter in the pedogenesis of Chernozems”, in Geochemistry of the Earth's Surface: Proceedings of the 5th international symposium, Reykjavik, 16-20 August 1999, abstract

   The archetypal Plains soil is classified as an Ustoll in the United States and a Chernozemic soil (Boroll in the United States) in Canada.

   2004, David J. Wishart, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, page 640