The BC horizon has hue of 7.5YR through 2.5Y, value of 4 through 6 and chroma of 2 through 6. Texture is loamy sand or sand in the fine-earth fraction. Reaction ranges from strongly acid through neutral. The C horizon has hue of 7.5YR through 5Y, value of 4 through 6 and chroma of 2 through 4. Texture ranges from very cobbly loamy sand to extremely gravelly sand.
Reaction ranges from moderately acid through moderately alkaline.
These soils do not occur in Land Resource Region R. Pelissier soils contain rock fragments derived from acidic igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks. Also, the substratum of Pelissier is strongly acid. The Bonaparte , Colosse , Colton , Constable , Hinckley , Hoosic , and Otisville series are members of related families. The Bonaparte, Hinckley, Hoosic, and Otisville soils have mesic temperature regimes. Colton and Constable soils have a higher organic carbon content in the spodic horizons.