Redox features have hue of 2.5Y, 10YR, or 7.5YR, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 1 to 8. Reaction is very strongly acid to moderately acid. It averages 18 to 30 percent clay and 15 to 50 percent sand. Individual subhorizons range from 10 to 35 percent clay and 15 to 70 percent sand. Rock fragment content ranges from 0 to 10 percent.
Reaction is strongly acid to slightly acid.
The 3E and Bt horizon is strongly acid to slightly alkaline. The eluvial part averages 1 to 10 percent clay and 70 to 98 percent sand. The illuvial part averages 4 to 15 percent clay and 65 to 95 percent sand. Appleriver soils have lithic or paralithic contact within 60 inches of the soil surface and contain residuum below the loess. Blair and Freeburg soils average more than 10 percent sand in the upper part of the series control section.