Name: Very dark grayish brown loam
Type: soil
Class: Mollisol
Subclass: Paleustoll
Particle Size: none
Sample No.: 90P186s
Owner: JHU
Wavelength Range: All
Origin: Kit Carson Co., Co. via USDA Soil Conservation service.
Collection Date: N/A
Description:   The parent material is eolian from upland plains.  Very dark grayish brown loam, (fine, montmorillonitic, mesic aridic). Original ASTER Spectral Library name was jhu.becknic.soil.mollisol.paleustoll.coarse.90P186s.spectrum.txt
Moderate fine granular structure parting to weak medium subangular blocky 
structure.  Slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky and plastic with neutral pH 
(7.2).  1.11% organic carbon, 14.5% clay, 41.0% silt, 44.5% sand.

Clay mineralogy: medium mica and montmorillonite peaks, small kaolinite 
and montmormillonite-chlorite peaks, and a weak chlorite peak.

Coarse mineralogy:  63% quartz, 18% feldspar, 5% other, 4% weathered 
aggregate, 2% opaque, 2% potassic feldspar, 1% glass, 1% glass aggregate, 
1% plagioclase feldspar, 1% biotite, 1% hornblende, and traces of zircon, 
tourmaline, glass-coated grains, plant opal, garnet, carb-aggregate and 
muscovite.

