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Chernozemic
Chernozemic
See also: chernozemic
English
Adjective
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.
- 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).
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Usage notes
- In the lower case form chernozemic the term is used more generically to refer to any soil containing chernozem.
chernozemic
chernozemic
See also: Chernozemic
English
Adjective
chernozemic (comparative more chernozemic, superlative most chernozemic)
- (soil science) Being or containing chernozem.
- chernozemic soils
- 1932, Bulletin, volume 13-16, American Soil Survey Association, page 53:
- 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.
- 1971 December 1, 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:
- They have a dark upper A horizon that usually contains approximately the same amount of organic matter as the geographically associated chernozemic soils.
- 1982, Philip W Goetz, editor, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, page 1026:
- 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.
- 1999 July 1, M. W. I. Schmidt, “Charred organic carbon in German chernozemic soils”, in European Journal of Soil Science, abstract:
- All these soils have chernozemic soil properties (dark colour, A–C profile, high base saturation, bioturbation).