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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 75. Chapters: Clay, Bog, Muskeg, Peat, Terra preta, San Joaquin, Acid sulfate soil, Loess, Alkali soils, Bay mud, List of vineyard soil types, Subaqueous soil, Serpentine soil, Podzol, Brown earth, Alvar, Oxisol, Vertisol, List of U.S. state soils, Ultisols, List of bogs, Soil series, Fuller's earth, Mollisols, Gelisols, Prime farmland, Histosol, Paleosol, Chernozem, Cecil, Umbrisols, Hydric soil, Entisol, Gley soil, Topsoil, Andosols, Planosols, Brown podzolic, Alfisols, Andisols, Psamment, Loam, USDA soil taxonomy, Menfro, Bama, Stagnosol, Red Mediterranean soil, Paxton, Fluvisols, Tropical peat, Natchez silt loam, Muck, Fill dirt, Kalkaska sand, Gleysols, Miami, Jory, Orthent, Shrub swamp, Acrisol, Gypsisols, Akadama, Pelan, Antigo, Berkshire, Aridisols, Regosols, Talik, Durisols, Brickearth, Pedalfer, Windsor, Technosols, Yedoma, Rendzina, Calcisols, Pedocal, Houdek, Terra rosa, Cambisols, Houston Black, Blandford, Narragansett, Stuttgart, Tifton, Drummer, Myakka, Leptosols, Charlottetown, Casa Grande, Orovada, Hilo, Inceptisols, Port Silt Loam, Guelph soil, Anthrosols, Seitz, Threebear, Solonetz, Hydrophobic soil, Sodic soil, Tepetate, Subsoil, Expansive clay, Flatwood, Plaggen soil, Tanana, Downer, Solonchak, Lixisols, Mesotrophic soil, Ustochrept, Rankers, Necrosol, Scobey, Terra fusca, Claypan, Calciorthid, Hume, Spodic soils. Excerpt: Terra preta (literally "black earth" in Portuguese) is a type of very dark, fertile anthropogenic soil found in the Amazon Basin. Terra preta owes its name to its very high charcoal content, and was indeed made by adding a mixture of charcoal, bone, and manure to the otherwise relatively infertile Amazonian soil, and stays there for thousands of years. It is also known as "Amazonian dark earth" or "Indian black earth." In Portuguese its full name is "Terra preta do indio" or "Terra preta de...
