Slopes range from 0 to 20 percent. Mean annual temperature is about 57 degrees F, and the mean annual precipitation is about 46 inches. Sandview silt loam - on a 2 percent nearly level upland ridge in pasture at 890 feet elevation. Thickness of the solum and depth to bedrock is more than 60 inches. Rock fragments range from 0 to 10 percent in the lower solum and substratum.
Fragments are limestone, siltstone, chert, or shale.
The soil ranges from very strongly acid to neutral in the upper part of the solum and from strongly acid to mildly alkaline in the lower part of the solum and substratum. The Ap horizon has hue of 7.5YR or 10YR, value of 3 to 5, and chroma of 2 to 4, but the Ap to a depth of 7 inches after mixing has value moist of 4 or more. Texture is silt loam or silty clay loam. Structure is weak or moderate, fine or medium, granular or subangular blocky. The B horizon has hue of 5YR to 10YR, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 4 to 8.