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Meanings of hardpan in English

Crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions.

Usage of hardpan in English
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The soil was light sand with a clay hardpan three feet down.
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I nodded, squinting into the red brightness reflected off my hardpan yard.
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Are other crops affected by hardpan being so close to the surface?
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Lying immobile on the hardpan, waiting for the virals to take him.
The passage
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In half a minute they were crossing the hardpan of the spaceport itself.
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The hardpan bases around most turbines bear the telltale marks of sheep encampment.
The Guardian
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He got up and pitched his cigarette out onto the hardpan.
The gunslinger
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If very impervious, a thick, dense deposition like this may be called hardpan.
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If, by digging, you encounter hardpan, or clay, dynamiting may be very profitable.
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Jake was halfway across the stable yard, cowering on the cracked, rubbly hardpan.
The gunslinger
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The dune fields interspersed by flats of hardpan passed monotonously.
Stonewielder
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Out here there was only the road, the sand, the baked hardpan of the desert.
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The hardpan had disintegrated in places to mere rubble.
The gunslinger
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It might do other things good or bad, according to conditions prevailing under the hardpan.
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15
Presumably your rainfall is too small for fruit unless you strike underflow below the hardpan.
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Then he saw it, racing toward them at an angle, bouncing wildly over the hardpan.
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