Mean annual temperature is 59 degrees F, and mean annual precipitation is 47 inches. Kempsville fine sandy loam on a 3 percent slope in a mixed pine and hardwood forest. Solum thickness ranges from 50 to 85 inches. Quartz gravel make up 0 to 35 percent of the solum and up to 50 percent of individual layers of the C horizon. Silt content of the particle size control section averages from 20 to 50 percent.
Reaction is very strongly acid through moderately acid unless limed.
The A or Ap horizon has hue of 7.5YR through 2.5Y, value of 2 through 5, and chroma of 2 through 4. Value of 2 or 3 is limited to a thin A horizon. The A horizon is loamy sand, coarse sandy loam, sandy loam, fine sandy loam, very fine sandy loam or loam, in the fine-earth fraction. The E horizon has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 5 through 7, and chroma of 3 through 6. The E horizon is loamy sand, sandy loam, fine sandy loam, very fine sandy loam, or loam in the fine-earth fraction.