Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word HARDPAN
HARDPAN
Definitions of HARDPAN
- A distinct layer of soil that is largely impervious to water.
- Synonym of dry lake.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using HARDPAN in a Sentence
- The lumber of the region being exhausted, the business of canaling declining and now abandoned, it has for the last 25 years been waning, until now it seems to have reached a bottom of hardpan.
- Its surface is hilly upland made of shaley loam atop hardpan, while the valleys consist of gravelly loam and alluvium.
- Due to deforestation, much of the Mesaoria is covered with "Kafkalla", which is a local term referring to calcium carbonate that has been compacted into a hardpan.
- These birds disturb the humus as they dig their nesting burrows, and thus prevent the formation of Jemo soil, a phosphatic hardpan topped off by raw humus.
- Others are man-made, such as hardpan formed by compaction from repeated plowing, particularly with moldboard plows, or by heavy traffic or pollution.
- Some vernal pools have an underlying impermeable clay layer (also known as a hardpan) that reduces water percolation.
- These sands have decomposed to nutrient-poor, acidic heather soils (Podsols), partly with hardpan in the subsoil.
- This type of landscape typically has a shallow basement layer such as bedrock, hardpan, claypan, or densely bedded gravel.
- The ard is most useful on light soils such as loams or sands, or in mountain fields where the soil is thin, and can be safely used in areas where deep ploughing would turn up hardpan or would cause salination or erosion.
- A duripan is a diagnostic soil horizon of the USDA soil taxonomy that is cemented by illuvial silica into a subsurface hardpan.
- As this plant is a geophyte, occupying a habitat consisting mostly of hardpan substrata, it has an unusual growth habit in which once the tuberous, underground stems hit the hardpan, they will then spread out horizontally along the surface of the impenetrable substrate.
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