Undisturbed areas have gilgai microrelief with microknolls 6 to 12 inches higher than microdepressions. Distance between the center of the microknoll and center of microdepression ranges from 4 to about 12 feet. The microknoll makes up about 20 percent, the intermediate, or area between the knoll and depression about 50 percent, and the depression about 30 percent. The cracks remain open for more than 90 cumulative days during most years. Slickensides are at a depth 12 to 24 inches and extend throughout the solum.
Reaction ranges from neutral to moderately alkaline.
It is typically noncalcareous in the A horizon and calcareous or noncalcareous below. In more than half of each pedon the A horizon has hue of 10YR to 5Y, value of 3 to 5 and chroma of 2 or 3 to a depth of at least 12 inches. Texture is clay or silty clay. The amplitude of waviness between the A and the Bss horizon is 5 to 18 inches. The Bss horizon, or Bkss horizon where present, have hue of 10YR to 5Y, value of 4 to 6 and chroma of 2 to 4.