Some pedons have a BC horizon with hue of 7.5YR to 2.5Y, value of 3 to 5, and chroma of 3 to 8. It is up to 12 inches thick. The B horizons are typically loam, very fine sandy loam, fine sandy loam or sandy loam in the fine-earth fraction but includes silt loam. The C horizon has hue of 10YR to 5Y, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 2 to 6. It is typically loam, very fine sandy loam, fine sandy loam, or sandy loam in the fine-earth fraction but includes silt loam.
Bedrock is slightly weathered schist, gneiss, phyllite, or granite.
Elliottsville soils have more clay in the particle-size control section. Michigamme soils formed in eolian material over glacial till. Onota, Revel and Welcome soils have sandstone bedrock. Penquis soils have more silt and crushable rock fragments throughout the soil. Rawsonville soils have a spodic horizon more than 16 inches thick or a Bh horizon more than 4 inches thick.