All of these soils, with the exception of Gatesburg, do not have sola with loamy sand and sand texture. Dekalb soils have bedrock within 40 inches. Elliber soils have more than 35 percent rock fragments. Gatesburg soils have a spodic horizon. Runoff is slow.
Permeability is rapid.
Mostly in woodland of mixed hardwoods, dominantly oaks. The Ridge and Valley areas and Blue Ridge parts of Pennsylvania. The series is of small extent. Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, 1974. Lamellae - the lamellae do not have sufficient accumulative thickness for an argillic horizon.