It is typically mixed with these colors. Slickensides range from common to many and from a few inches to a several feet across. Calcium carbonate concretions and nodules range about 5 to 15 percent. These are individual concretions or with many fine concretions in clusters. Gypsum crystals and clusters of crystals range from none to about 5 percent.
Reaction is slightly or moderately alkaline and is very slightly to strongly effervescent.
The 2BCss horizon has colors in shades of gray, brown, olive, and yellow. Texture is clay with 10 to 20 percent more clay than the horizon above. Slickensides range from common to many. Hard pitted concretions or nodules of calcium carbonate range from none to few. Gypsum crystals and clusters of crystals range from few to about 5 percent.