chernozemic

adj

1. (not-comparable)Of 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.”

   “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.”

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

   “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).”

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

2. Being or containing chernozem.

   “chernozemic soils”

   “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.”

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

   “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.”

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