The Bt horizon is dominantly silty clay or clay or their shaly or channery analogues but subhorizons of silty clay loam or very channery analogues of those textures are permitted. It is medium acid to mildly alkaline in the upper part and neutral to moderately alkaline in the lower part. Some pedons contain free carbonates in the lower part. They are silty clay loam, silty clay, clay, or their channery or very channery analogues. It is mildly alkaline or moderately alkaline and contains free carbonates.
Bedrock is hard limestone, calcareous siltstone or shale.
These are the Beasley , Bland , Bledsoe , Bonnell , Brashear , Bratton , Briggsville , Brookside , Bucklick , Caneyville , Chrome , Derinda , Donahue , Eden , Edenton , Eldean , Estate , Faywood , Fredonia , Hagerstown , Heitt , Kewaunee , Lamoille , Losantville , Lowell , Markland , Medary , Miamian , Milton , Newnata , Ozaukee , Shrouts , Upshur , Vandalia , Vincent , Woodsfield , and Wynn series in the same family and the Brooke series. Beasley soils have mottles of low chroma in the lower part of the solum. Bland, Caneyville, Chrome, Derinda, Donahue, Eden, Edenton, Faywood, Fredonia, Milton, Shrouts, and Wynn soils have lithic or paralithic contacts within 40 inches. Bledsoe soils formed in colluvial material from soils formed in residuum from limestone, shale, siltstone, and sandstone. Bonnell soils formed in loess and till.