It is soft anorthosite rock that crushes to sandy loam, loam, silt loam, silty clay loam, or clay loam. There are no known series in this family. Soils in a related family are Coolville , Gustin , Lansdown, and Rarden series. These soils have mixed mineralogy. Coolville soils are deep to acid shale bedrock.
Rarden soils have less clay in the subsoil.
Lansdown soils developed in old alluvium and glacial till derived mainly from shale. Sketerville soils are on convex ridges and sideslopes in the Northern Piedmont province. Slope gradients range from 0 to 7 percent. These soils developed in residuum of anorthosite. Colleen soils are well drained and Pineywoods soils are poorly drained.