Reaction is very strongly acid in unlimed areas, and ranges to neutral in limed areas. It is clay loam, loam or silt loam and averages 18 to 35 percent clay and 15 to 40 percent sand. Reaction is very strongly acid or strongly acid in the upper part and ranges to neutral in the lower part. It is stratified and strata include silt loam, loam, clay loam and silty clay loam, with minor strata of silt. Clay content averages 18 to 35 percent and sand content averages 10 to 40 percent.
Reaction ranges from neutral to slightly alkaline.
Belmore, Hayden, Hebron, Hollinger, Kendallville, Kidder, Kosciusko, LeRoy, Letort, Owosso, Relay, Senachwine, Sisson, Strawn, Theresa, Wawasee and Wykoff soils have the depth to the base of the argillic horizon at less than 55 inches. Coggon soils have redox iron depletions within 40 inches. Grellton soils averages more than 15 percent sand in the upper part of the series control section. Mandeville soils have a paralithic contact at 20 to 40 inches. Greybrook soils are on backslopes of dissected lake plains.