An E horizon, where present, has hue of 10YR, value of 6, and chroma of 4 to 6. Reaction is very strongly acid or strongly acid in unlimed areas, and ranges to neutral in limed areas. It is silt loam or silty clay loam, and averages 22 to 33 percent clay, and 10 to 25 percent sand. Reaction ranges from very strongly acid to neutral. It is commonly loam or clay loam, and less commonly silt loam or silty clay loam and averages 24 to 35 percent clay and 25 to 35 percent sand.
Reaction is strongly acid or very strongly acid.
It is silty clay or clay, and averages 42 to 80 percent clay, and 5 to 20 percent sand. Reaction is strongly acid or moderately acid. A 3BC horizon, where present, has hue of 10YR or 7.5YR, value of 3 or 4, and chroma of 3 or 4. Arcola, Bookwood, Brecknock, Cateache, Culleoke, Dumfries, Frondorf, Kell, Legore, Loudonville, Mechanicsburg, Myersville, Oatlands, Penn, Ryder, Spriggs, and Westmoreland soils have the depth to the base of the argillic horizon at less than 40 inches. Door and Wheeling soils average more than 20 percent sand in the lower part of the series control section.