Reaction ranges from very strongly acid through moderately acid. The C horizon has hue of 7.5YR through 2.5Y, value of 3 through 7, and chroma of 3 through 6. Texture is coarse sand, sand, or loamy sand in the fine-earth fraction or it is stratified sand and gravel. Layers of loamy fine sand are present in some pedons. Some pedons also have a loamy 3C horizon below 40 inches with fine-earth textures of sandy loam or fine sandy loam.
Reaction ranges from very strongly acid through neutral.
Neutral reactions are restricted to depths greater than 30 inches. The Chestnut , Edneyville , Gallimore , Lordstown , and Wakeman series are in the same family. Chestnut soils have a paralithic contact at 20 to 40 inches. Edneyville soils are underlain by saprolite derived from granite and gneiss and do not have stratified sand and gravel C horizons. Gallimore soils are deeper than 50 inches to the bottom of the cambic horizon.