Black soil may refer to: Chernozem, fertile black soils found in eastern Europe, Russia, India and the Canadian prairies Muck (soil), a soil made up primarily of humus from drained swampland Vertisol, dark cracking soils with a high clay content found between 50° N and 45° S of the equator Terra preta, "black earth" or soil of the Amazon river basin See also Black Earth (disambiguation)