Slopes are dominantly less than 8 percent, but range to 20 percent. Near the type location, the mean annual precipitation is about 45 inches and the mean annual temperature is about 58 degrees. Peridge silt loam, on 1 to 3 percent slopes in cultivated orchard. 36 degrees 14 minutes 23 seconds N. and 94 degrees 8 minutes 4 seconds W., NAD 83. Solum thickness is 80 inches or more.
Reaction ranges from very strongly acid to neutral.
Coarse fragments range from 0 to 9 percent in the A, BA, AB and Bt horizons and from 0 to 60 percent in the 2Bt horizon and below. The E horizon, where present, has hue of 10YR, value of 5 or 6, and chroma of 3 or 4. Texture is silt loam. Texture is silt loam. The Bt horizon has hue of 2.5YR or 5YR, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 4 to 8.