It is silty clay loam. Reaction is slightly alkaline or moderately alkaline and contains carbonates. The C horizon has 10YR or 7.5YR hue, value of 3 to 5, and chroma of 3 to 4. It typically is silty clay loam, but in some pedons it becomes silt loam with depth. Thin layers of fine sand, silt, silt loam, very fine sandy loam, silty clay, or clay or various combinations of these textures are also in some pedons.
Reaction is slightly alkaline or moderately alkaline and contains carbonates.
Alexandria and Lybrand soils have more than 2 percent rock fragments in the lower part of the series control section. Edom, Lairdsville, Millheim, and Twiggtown soils have a lithic or paralithic contact in the series control section. Saylesville soils are on glacial lake basins, stream terraces, and in slack water areas associated with ground moraines. Slope gradients typically are 2 to 6 percent but range from 0 to 40 percent. These soils formed primarily in silty clay loam lacustrine deposits with a thin silty or loamy mantle.