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Chernozemic en · ADJ

Meanings

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. 1944, Proceedings, Soil Science Society of America, page 42:
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • 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: