The Klinesville series consists of shallow, somewhat excessively drained soils formed in residuum derived from red shale, siltstone, slate, and fine-grained sandstone. They are on dissected uplands. Slopes range from 3 to 80 percent.
Permeability is moderately rapid.
Klinesville very channery silt loam, cultivated. Solum thickness and depth to bedrock range from 10 to 20 inches. Rock fragments are dominantly red shale and range from 15 to 75 percent in the solum, and from 40 to 90 percent in the C horizon with an average of more than 50 percent in the textural control section. Where unlimed, soil reaction ranges from very strongly acid through moderately acid throughout. Illite and vermiculite are dominant clay minerals and the soil contains detectable amounts of chlorite, kaolinite and interstratified clay.