It is sandy loam or fine sandy loam in the fine-earth fraction. It has platy structure or it is massive. In some pedons the upper part of the substratum is prismatic. Consistence is firm or very firm. Some pedons have loamy sand or gravelly loamy sand textures below 40 inches.
Reaction ranges from strongly acid to slightly alkaline.
These are the Bangor , Battydoe , Becket , Berkshire , Chatham , Chesuncook , DeKapen , Dixfield , Elliottsville , Groveton , Houghtonville , Howland , Lombard , Marlow , Michigamme , Mundal , Onota , Penquis , Plaisted , Rawsonville , Revel , Tunbridge , and Welcome series in the same family. Bangor soils lack a lithologic discontinuity and have silt loam or loam textures in the substratum within the series control section. Becket soils have fine sandy loam or sandy loam textures in the subsoil. Battydoe, Berkshire, Groveton, and Houghtonville soils lack a Cd horizon in dense till within the series control section. Chatham soils are slightly acid to mildly alkaline in the solum.