The Woodsfield series consists of deep or very deep, well drained soils formed in a silty mantle 14 to 26 inches thick and in the underlying reddish clayey residuum weathered from interbedded shale, siltstone, and sandstone.
Permeability is moderate in the silty material and slow in the underlying material.
These soils are on summits and benches and have slopes ranging from 1 to 25 percent. Thickness of the solum 40 to 60 inches and depth to free carbonates ranges from 26 to 60 inches. Depth to soft bedrock is 40 to 72 inches. The silty mantle ranges in thickness from 14 to 26 inches. Coarse fragments, mainly thin flat fragments of siltstone and sandstone, commonly are 0 to 5 percent by volume in the A and B horizons and 0 to 15 percent in the 2B and 2C horizons, but soft fragments of shale range up to 60 percent in the 2C horizon.