Chernozemic

See also: chernozemic

English

Adjective

Chernozemic (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to an order of soils with chernozemic characteristics.
   • 1944, Proceedings, Soil Science Society of America, page 42:

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

   • 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:

     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.

   • 1998, The Canadian System of Soil Classification‎^[1], Canadian Agricultural Services Coordinating Committee, page 63:

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

   • 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 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).

   • 2004, David J. Wishart, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains‎^[2], page 640:

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

Usage notes

• In the lower case form chernozemic the term is used more generically to refer to any soil containing chernozem.