While the names are often interchanged, claypan soils and plowpan soils are two different things. One is a natural soil classification while the other has been created from years of tilling wet soil.
Claypan soils are those that are characterized by heavy clay beneath a layer of lighter silt clay soils. The claypan layer will have a higher soil density and lower permeability. Claypan soils are natu…