The upper part of the B horizon has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 4 through 6 and chroma of 3 through 6. The lower part of the B horizon has hue of 10YR through 5Y, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 2 through 6. The B horizon is loam, silt loam or their channery or gravelly analogs. The C horizon has hue of 10YR through 5Y, value of 3 through 5 and chroma of 2 through 4. It is channery, very channery, gravelly or very gravelly silt loam, loam, very fine sandy loam, fine sandy loam, or sandy loam.
Amostown soils are extremely acid and have prominent mottles in the B horizon.
Ashe , Cardigan , Chatfield , Ditney , Hazel , Lordstown , Morrowbone, Steinsburg and Yalesville soils have bedrock within 40 inches of the surface. Bernardston , Broadbrook , Montauk , Nantucket , Newport , Paxton , Scituate and Wethersfield soils are underlain by dense till within a depth of 40 inches of the surface. Brookfield soils are 5YR or redder in the upper part of the B horizon. Buladean soils have coarse fragments which are dominated by felsic crystalline rock such as gneiss and granitoids. Chadakoin and Franklinville soils have coarse fragments which are dominated by sandstone, siltstone, and shale.