The A and E horizons are silt loam or loam. Some pedons have a transitional horizon between the A or E horizon and the Bt horizon. The upper part of the Bt horizon dominately has hues of 10YR or 7.5YR and ranges to 5YR, value of 5 and chromas of 4 to 8. It is silt loam, loam, silty clay loam, and clay loam. The lower part of the Bt horizon has hues of 7.5YR, 5YR, and 2.5YR, values of 4 or 5 and chromas of 6 or 8.
Mottles are few to common in shades of brown, yellow and red.
It is clay loam, silty clay loam, loam, or rarely silty clay or clay. A lithologic discontinuity is evident in some pedons, but it is not a requirement of the series. The BC or C horizon has colors and fine earth textures like those in the lower part of the Bt horizon, except some pedons are mottled without a dominant color. In some pedons, the bedrock is soft enough to be a Cr horizon. These are the Jefferson , Lily , Marr , Riney , Sassafras , and Sunnyside series in the same family and the Allegheny , Apison , Fletcher , Gilpin , Hartsells , Linker , Shelocta , Wellston , Wernock , and Whitley series in closely related families.