These soils are usually moist, but are dry in all parts between depths of 8 and 24 inches for 60 to 80 consecutive days in most years. The upper part of the 10 to 40 inch control section contains 2 to 10 percent clay. The lower part of the control section is loamy sand or sand. Depth to the 2C horizon ranges from 20 to 35 inches. Rock fragments in the control section range from 0 to 15 percent by volume.
Reaction is moderately acid or slightly acid.
It contains 0 to 5 percent iron concretions. It is loamy sand, sand, or fine sand. These are the Birchbay , Lystair , and Winston series. Lystair soils are mottled in the C horizon. These soils are on esker and kame like relief along the edges of major valleys at elevations of 300 to 1,000 feet.