It is mottled in shades of red, brown, and gray. Some pedons are coarsely mottled in shades of red, brown, and gray. Texture is clay loam, clay, shaly clay loam, shaly clay, cobbly clay loam, cobbly clay, gravelly clay loam, or gravelly clay. Content of coarse fragments of shale or sandstone ranges from 5 to 40 percent by volume. About 5 to 30 percent by volume is less than 76 mm in diameter and 0 to 20 percent by volume is more than 76 mm in diameter.
Reaction is strongly acid or very strongly acid.
These are the Addielou, Allen, Avilla, Bama, Etowah, Holston, Leesburg, Minvale, Nella, Norfolk, Orangeburg, Pikeville, Ruston, and Smithdale series in the same family, and the Blevins, Elrose, Izagora, Linker, Panama, and Pirum series in similar families. All of these except Allen, Nella, and Panama soils have less than 35 percent clay in their lower sola. Allen and Nella soils have moderate permeability and are moist for longer periods of time. Panama soils have more than 35 percent coarse fragments in the control section. In addition, Holston, Leesburg, and Norfolk soils are typically hue 10YR in the B2t horizon.