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hard·pan

 (härd′păn′)
n.
1. A layer of hard subsoil or clay. Also called caliche.
2. Hard, unbroken ground.
3. A foundation; bedrock.
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hardpan

(ˈhɑːdˌpæn)
n
(Physical Geography) a hard impervious layer of clay below the soil, resistant to drainage and root growth
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hard•pan

(ˈhɑrdˌpæn)

n.
1. any layer of firm detrital matter, as of clay, underlying soft soil.
2. hard, unbroken ground.
[1810–20]
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Hardpan

A compacted layer of soil that is difficult for roots or water to penetrate. It often forms just below the depth of plowing, when plowing, year after year, is always to the same depth.
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Noun1.hardpan - crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions
dirt, soil - the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
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The puddled-flooded practice creates hardpan which is imperative to provide standing water condition but beside breaking this hardpan upcoming wheat root proliferation hindered due to problem of suffocation (Sharma et al., 2003).
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Back then, the property was 17 acres of wild, untamed plants and unworkable hardpan clay soil.
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From well drilling records available at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS), the subsurface geology between Douglas Lake and Burt Lake contains poorly sorted layers of sand, gravel, and sandy-gravel separated by layers of hardpan clay of various thicknesses.
I passed a big hardpan turn-out in front of a cattle gate and holding pen.
Canizares, from Malaga, Spain, won on the second extra hole when the 27-year old Hinton from Oxford, England, pitched short from a hardpan and chipped about 15 feet past the cup.
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