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English
Etymology
From pan + spot.
Noun
panspot (plural panspots)
- (soil science) An area where hard clay or similar material lies close to the surface in a shallow depression, limiting the ability of the ground to absorb water.
1968, Frank Rauzi, Claude Lee Fly, E. J. Dyksterhuis, Water Intake on Midcontinental Rangelands as Influenced by Soil and Plant Cover:The landscape of a panspot range site is undulating and made up of not less than two unlike soils. Soils occupying the panspot have a dispersed surface, and rate of water intake is very low.
1971, United States, “ARS”, in Agricultural Research, volume 41, number 176, Service, page 51:Two-acre watersheds are constructed on three representative research sites, each characteristic of one main soil-vegetation complex found in saline upland and panspot ranges.
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