Name: Light yellowish brown loam
Type: soil
Class: Aridisol
Subclass: Calciorthid
Particle Size: none
Sample No.: 84P3721
Owner: JHU
Wavelength Range: All
Origin: 1.5 km NE of Minkher Gharbi, Syria via USDA Soil Conservationservice.
Collection Date: N/A
Description:  The parent material is igneous-basaltic rock.  Physiography: level to undulating upland plains.  Light yellowish brown loam, (typic xerollic). Original ASTER Spectral Library name was jhu.becknic.soil.aridisol.calciorthid.coarse.84P3721.spectrum.txt
Fine and medium subangular blocky structure parting to moderate medium 
platy; hard, friable, sticky and plastic.  1.02% organic carbon, 18.1% clay, 
70.7% silt, 11.2 % sand.

Clay mineralogy: none, but chemical analysis gives 20% CaCO3.
