These soils formed in sandy marine sediments and occur on flatwoods, depressions, low uplands, and stream terraces. Texture of the surface horizon ranges from sand to fine muck with all other horizons except the Bh being sand. Texture of the Bh horizon can range from loamy sand to loamy fine sand. In some pedons a black to dark indurated transitional layer between the E2 and Bh1 horizon may be present. Runoff is slow and ponding of the soil surface often occurs during wet periods.
Permeability ranges from moderately slow to rapid in the various horizons.
Depending on landscape position, the water table can be as shallow as 15 cm during the winter months or as deep as 150 cm in dry periods. These soils are used for forestry, range and pasture. If water table control is used, some crops can be grown. Saturated hydraulic conductivity of the A, E1, and E2 horizons are extremely rapid, but decreases two orders of magnitude in the Bh1 horizon. It occurs on nearly level broad inter-fluves to very gently sloping, poorly drained areas, toe slopes, depressions, and drainageways.