The Riney series consists of deep and very deep, well drained soils formed in weakly consolidated sandstone and shale.
Permeability is moderately rapid.
Average annual precipitation is 47 inches. Riney loam - pasture. The solum thickness ranges from 40 to 80 inches. Depth to soft reddish sandstone ranges from 4 to more than 10 feet. Reaction ranges from strongly acid to neutral in the surface and strongly to very strongly acid in the lower part of the solum and substratum.