The associated soils on flood plains have less than 35 percent coarse fragments in the particle-size control section. Elliber soils also have an argillic horizon. Runoff is slow or medium. Permeability is moderate or moderately rapid in the A horizon, and rapid or very rapid in the C horizon. More than one-half of the acreage is cleared and used mainly for pasture or hay.
Many areas are idle and reverting to woody vegetation.
Native vegetation was mixed hardwoods. The extent is moderate. Hardy County, West Virginia, 1980. These soils were previously mapped as Alluvial land and Alluvial land, cobbly.