Name: Dark brown interior moist clay loam
Type: soil
Class: Aridisol
Subclass: Salorthid
Particle Size: none
Sample No.: 79P1530
Owner: JHU
Wavelength Range: All
Origin: Mrayia Dair El zor, Syria via USDA Soil Conservation service.
Collection Date: N/A
Description:  The parent material is alluvium from terracettes in lake plains; nonreclaimed salt-affected soil, barren land runoff.  Dark brown interior moist clay loam, surface crust of 0.5 cm formed by salt deposition in microdepressions (fine-loamy, mixed, thermic typic salorthid). Original ASTER Spectral Library name was jhu.becknic.soil.aridisol.salorthid.coarse.79P1530.spectrum.txt
Massive, friable, slightly sticky and plastic and strongly effervescent.  1.03% 
organic carbon, 11.1% clay, 50.5% silt, 38.4% sand.  0.5% extractable Fe.  

Clay mineralogy: none.

Coarse mineralogy: none.  15.5% CaCO3, 3.5% CaSO4. 
