The A or Ap horizon has value of 3 to 5 and chroma of 2 or 3. In eroded pedons, the Ap horizon has value of 3 to 6 and chroma of 3 or 4. The AC horizon has value and chroma of 3 to 6. The A or Ap horizons are loamy fine sand, fine sandy loam, fine sand or sand. The AC horizon is loamy fine sand or fine sand.
Reaction is neutral to moderately alkaline.
It typically is fine sand, but is loamy fine sand or sand marginal to fine sand in some pedons. The C horizon contains carbonates and is slightly alkaline or moderately alkaline. Biltmore, Caesar, Dabney, Oakville, Osolo, Penwood, Pahuk, Plainfield, Perks, Pinegrove, Spessard, Suncook, Tyner, and Windsor soils are more acid than neutral in some part of the soil profile and do not have carbonates in the lower part of the series control section. Hodge, Sarpy and Sardak soils have stratification in the soil profile and formed in alluvium on flood plains. In addition, Hodge soils average more than 10 percent silt plus clay in the particle-size control section and Sarpy soils have more medium and coarse sand in the soil profile.