Solum thickness ranges from 40 to more than 60 inches. Depth to hard bedrock ranges from 6 to 10 feet or more. The soil is very strongly acid or strongly acid throughout, unless limed. Limed soils typically are moderately acid or slightly acid in the upper part. Content of coarse fragments ranges from 0 to 35 percent by volume in the A horizon and 0 to 10 percent by volume in the Bt horizon.
Fragments are dominantly gravel in size.
Bt horizons and few to many flakes of mica in the BC and C horizons. The A or Ap horizon has hue of 5YR to 2.5Y, value of 3 to 6, and chroma of 2 to 6. The A horizon is sandy loam, fine sandy loam, coarse sandy loam, loamy sand, loamy coarse sand, in the fine earth fraction. Eroded phases are sandy clay loam or clay loam in the fine earth fraction. The E horizon, where present, has hue of 5YR to 2.5Y, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 4 to 6.