Hardpan

Hardpan or claypan prairie types are common and found where soils have an impermeable or only slightly permeable, silty clayey subsoil below the loamier surface layer.

Ecoregions of Kansas and Nebraska (EPA) 2008

Hardpan is reached about 18 inches below the surface, which would indicate that no tap root were needed were it not for the fact that a tiny brook runs down through the garden not far from the trees.

Walnut Growing in Oregon Jacob Calvin Cooper 1891

I forward by this mail to his Excellency the President a request for the appointment of my son, Jabez Leonidas Doke, as postmaster at Hardpan.

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Ambrose Bierce 1878

_Hardpan_: The hard, unbroken layer of earth below the mould or cultivated soil.

American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

_Hardpan_, the hard, unbroken layer of earth, below the mould or cultivated soil.

A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School Catharine Esther Beecher 1839

New at Eleven: Josh Fernandez' poems have also been published in Pax Americana, Poetry Now, the Rattlesnake Review and Hardpan.

New at Eleven: [Josh Fernandez'] poems have also Rus Bowden 2009

New at Eleven: Josh Fernandez' poems have also been published in Pax Americana, Poetry Now, the Rattlesnake Review and Hardpan.

Archive 2009-08-01 Rus Bowden 2009