Name: Grey calcareous silty soil
Type: soil
Class: Aridisol
Subclass: None
Particle Size: Unsorted
Sample No.: fgt017
Owner: University of NSW
Wavelength Range: TIR
Origin: Fowlers Gap, western New South Wales, AustraliaHewson(1998) PhD thesis 
Collection Date: N/A
Description: Parent material consists of limestone/calcareous shale.Physiography: Low relief valley.  Original ASTER Spectral Library name was jpl.nicolet.soil.aridisol.none.unsorted.fgt017.spectrum.txt
Grey calcareous silty soil.

Clay mineralogy : XRD analysis indicated the presence of Fe Chlorite, 
illite/muscovite and calcite. PIMA SWIR spectra indicated the presence of 
kaolinite and/or montmorillonite and calcite.

Spectral Description: The FTIR spectrum for fgg017 indicates the presence of a 
fine grained quartz texture by the strong presence a peak at 6.42 um and the 
residual reststrahlen features at 8.18 um and 8.625 um. The presence of calcite 
is also suggested by the spectral peak at 11.2 um. 
