The 2Cg or 2C horizon has hue of 7.5YR to 5Y or is neutral, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 0 to 6. It is silt loam, silt, very fine sandy loam, fine sandy loam, loamy fine sand, fine sand, very fine sand, or light silty clay loam and is commonly stratified. Clay content of individual subhorizons or strata ranges from 5 to 32 percent. The thickness or sequence of individual strata may change within short horizontal distances. The clayey substratum phase is clay, silty clay, or silty clay loam below 60 inches.
Reaction ranges from neutral to moderately alkaline.
These are Branch , Leola , Markton , Riverdale , and Selfridge series. Branch and Riverdale soils have more than 1 percent rock fragments in the lower part of the series control section. Leola and Markton soils average less than 50 percent silt in the lower part of the argillic horizon. Selfridge soils do not have as much as 85 percent silt in any subhorizon in the argillic horizon and do not have subhorizons or strata in the lower part of the control section clay contents as low as 5 percent. The Bixler soils occupy ridges, low knolls, and back slopes on lake plains of late Wisconsin age.