Mean annual temperature is about 50 degrees F, and mean annual precipitation is about 33 inches. Gara loam on a convex slope of 11 percent - wooded. Solum thickness typically is between 40 to 48 inches and ranges from 30 to 70 inches. Solum thickness and depth to carbonates typically are the same. Pebbles and stones range from 0 to 5 percent by volume throughout the sola and C horizon.
Reaction ranges from medium acid to very strongly acid in the most acid part of the solum.
Total thickness of the A and E horizons, depth to clay maximum, maximum percent clay in the Bt horizon, thickness of the Bt horizon, depth to carbonates, and depth to grayish mottles decrease as slope increases. The Bt horizon has 10YR and 7.5YR hue, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 3 to 6. Soils having 5YR or redder hue or appreciable mottling of 5YR or redder hue in the Bt horizon are excluded from the Gara series. The Bt horizon averages between 32 and 35 percent clay, but thin layers with up to 38 percent clay are in some profiles. Clay films and silt and very fine sand coats are in parts of the B horizons.