It is neutral or slightly alkaline and contains carbonates in some pedons. The 2Btg or 2Bg horizon is stratified. It is dominantly silty clay loam, clay loam, silt loam, or loam, and contains strata of sandy loam, loamy sand, or sand in some pedons. Sand content averages more than 10 percent and is not dominated by fine or very fine sand. Some pedons contain as much as 10 percent coarse fragments.
Reaction is slightly alkaline or moderately alkaline and contains carbonates in most pedons.
Typically some part of the matrix has chroma of 1 or 2 and redoximorphic features of higher chroma. This part is stratified silt loam, loam, silty clay loam, clay loam, or sandy loam, and some pedons contain thin lenses of sand or loamy sand. Sand content averages more than 10 percent and is not dominated by fine or very fine sand. Some pedons contain as much as 20 percent coarse fragments. Reaction is moderately alkaline, or less commonly, slightly alkaline and contains carbonates.