Reaction is slightly alkaline or moderately alkaline. A layer less than 2 inches thick of coprogenous earth is present above the marly silt loam in some pedons. The 2Cg horizon has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 5 to 7, and chroma of 1 or 2. It is sand, coarse sand, fine sand and loamy sand and their gravelly analogues. Rock fragment content ranges from 0 to 25 percent.
Reaction is slightly alkaline or moderately alkaline.
This is the Edwards series. It does not have sand within the series control section. Edselton soils formed in herbaceous organic materials overlying marly material and sand deposits and occupy shallow closed depressions primarily on outwash plains, lake plains, lake terraces and flood plains, but can occur within moraines and till plains. Slope gradients range from 0 to1 percent. The mean annual temperature is about 48 to 53 degrees F., mean annual precipitation ranges from 30 to 42 inches, frost free days range from 130 to 180 days, and elevation ranges from 580 feet to 1530 feet above sea level.