The Rosine series consists of deep, well drained soils formed in loess and underlying residuum weathered from shale, which in places is interbedded with thin strata of siltstone.
Permeability is moderately slow.
They are on side slopes and narrow hilltops. Slopes range from 4 to 30 percent. The solum thickness ranges from 30 to 60 inches. Depth to soft siltstone or shale ranges from 40 to 80 inches. Except where limed, the soil ranges from strongly to very strongly acid in the solum and from very strongly acid to slightly acid in the C horizon.