Barneston gravelly silt loam- on a 3 percent linear slope under a forest canopy. Mean annual soil temperature is 47 to 52 degrees. Solum thickness ranges from l3 to 25 inches. Solum depth ranges from l3 to 20 inches. These soils are usually moist, but are dry for 45 to 60 consecutive days following summer solstice.
Reaction is medium acid or strongly acid.
Rock fragments average 35 to 75 percent in the particle-size control section. Some pedons have an E horizon. Below depth of l0 inches, it is very gravelly, extremely gravelly, very cobbly or extremely cobbly loam, or sandy loam. Rock fragments average 35 to 75 percent. The upper 10 cm averages 4 to 6 percent organic carbon.