These soils are on knolls and on slopes around the edge of broad nearly level to strongly sloping Coastal Plain uplands. Runoff is rapid. Slopes range from 2 to 12 percent. Near the type location mean annual temperature is 67 degrees F, and mean annual precipitation is 51 inches. Solum thickness exceeds 60 inches.
Reaction is extremely acid to strongly acid except in surface layers which have been limed.
Nodules of ironstone range from 5 to 25 percent by volume in the A horizon and 0 to 10 percent in the Bt horizon. Plinthite ranges from 5 to 15 percent in the mid part and 0 to 15 percent in the lower part of the Bt horizon. Depth to horizon containing 5 percent or more plinthite ranges from 16 to 26 inches. The Ap horizon has hue of 10YR or 7.5YR, value of 3 through 5, and chroma of 2 through 6. It is loamy sand, loamy coarse sand, sandy loam, or their gravelly analogues, but ranges to sandy clay loam in eroded areas.