Name: Light yellowish brown clay
Type: soil
Class: Aridisol
Subclass: Salorthid
Particle Size: none
Sample No.: 89P1763
Owner: JHU
Wavelength Range: All
Origin: San Bernadino Co., Ca.  China Lake via USDA Soil Conservationservice.
Collection Date: N/A
Description: The parent material is alluvium over lacustrine material from  playa.  Light yellowish brown clay, (fine-loamy, mixed calcareous, thermic typic). Original ASTER Spectral Library name was jhu.becknic.soil.aridisol.salorthid.coarse.89P1763.spectrum.txt
Weak medium subangular blocky structure, hard, friable, very sticky and 
plastic, with few fine salt crystals; strongly effervescent and strongly 
alkaline (pH 9.7).   0.68% organic carbon, 51.5% clay, 18.8% silt, 29.7% 
sand.

Clay mineralogy: (CNZ1 horizon at 25 cm), weak calcite and mica peaks.  

Coarse mineralogy: (same horizon as for the clay), 37% quartz, 36% carb-
aggregate, 10% potassic feldspar, 5% other, 4% opaque, 3% hornblende, 2% 
biotite, 1% calcite, and traces of chlorite, muscovite, glass, smectite, 
diatoms, plagioclase feldspar and zircon.
