The 2Btg or 2Bt horizon is clay loam, silty clay loam, loam, clay or silty clay. This horizon typically contains more clay than the Bt horizon and always a higher content of sand. It averages 30 to 45 percent clay and 20 to 30 percent sand. It is firm or very firm. It is strongly acid to neutral.
Reaction ranges from slightly acid to moderately alkaline.
These are the Barrington , Catlin , Dana , Graymont , Harrison , Keltner , and Saybrook series. Barrington and Saybrook soils have sola less than 40 inches in thickness. Catlin and Harrison soils formed in 40 to 60 inches of loess and in other underlying materials. Assumption soils are on side slopes and some ridge tops on gently sloping to strongly sloping till plains and moraines. Slope gradients range from 2 to 18 percent.