Unrubbed organic material resembles herbaceous and woody plant tissues. The 2C horizon has hue of 10YR to 5Y, value of 3 to 6, and chroma of 1 to 4. Redoximorphic features are present in some pedons. It ranges from coarse sand to loamy fine sand and their gravelly analogs. Gravel content ranges from 0 to 40 percent.
Reaction ranges from extremely acid to strongly acid.
This is the Makinen series which are from outside LRR R and S. The Makinen soils receive less 31 inches of precipitation and have less gravel in the substratum. Freetown and Paupack are similar soils in related families. Freetown soils have organic layers greater than 51 inches thick. Paupack soils are underlain by loamy skeletal or clayey skeletal mineral material. Swansea soils are in bogs that range from small enclosed depressions to bogs of several hundred acres in size.