Name: Very pale brown to brownish yellow interior dry gravelly silt loam
Type: soil
Class: Aridisol
Subclass: Gypsiorthid
Particle Size: none
Sample No.: 82P2695
Owner: JHU
Wavelength Range: All
Origin: Schuamri wildlife reserve on highway Azraq to Saudi Arabia via USDASoil Conservation service.
Collection Date: N/A
Description:  from grazed rangeland.  Very pale brown interior dry gravelly silt loam to brownish yellow interior moist gravelly silt loam (typic gypsiorthid). Original ASTER Spectral Library name was jhu.becknic.soil.aridisol.gypsiorthid.coarse.82P2695.spectrum.txt
Moderate fine and medium platy structure.  Slightly hard, friable, plastic and 
sticky; strongly effervescent with an abrupt wavey boundary.  0.47% organic 
carbon, 16.4% clay, 41.7% silt, 41.9% sand.

Clay mineralogy: none.  

Coarse mineralogy: none.

Chemical analyses give 7% CaCO3 and 18% CaSO4.  
