Uncovering the Mysterious and Fertile Amazonian Dark Soil What You Didn't Know!

Within 50 years they were completely overgrown by the jungle and that's why they were not seen by the explorers who came in 100 years later. Terra Prater Another interesting discovery in the Amazon has been terra prater. Known by some as Amazonian dark earth, terra prater is a form of soil that seems to only be exclusive to the Amazonian basin. Terra prater is an incredibly fertile form of soil that many scientists have been looking at as a possible way to transform the entire agricultural landscape. However, while scientists are still working on making terra prater, it's interesting because no one knows how it really came to be. Well, as you'd expect, Graham has a theory about that too.