Chernozemic
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See also: chernozemic
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Chernozemic (not comparable)
- 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
[edit]- In the lower case form chernozemic the term is used more generically to refer to any soil containing chernozem.