Texture is fine sandy loam, sandy loam, loamy fine sand, or loamy sand in the fine-earth fraction. Structure is granular, platy, or subangular blocky or the horizon is massive. The Cd horizon has hue of 10YR to 5Y, value of 4 to 7, and chroma of 2 to 6. It is comprised of loamy layers and sandy pockets and lenses with horizontal orientation, with a composite texture of loamy sand, loamy fine sand, sandy loam, fine sandy loam, or their gravelly analogues. They make up 20 percent or more of the horizon.
Structure is weak or moderate, thin to thick platy, or the horizon is massive.
Consistence is firm or very firm. Some pedons have friable C horizons up to 8 inches thick. These are the Marlow , Mundalite and Plaisted series. Marlow soils have loamy substrata with less than 20 percent sand lenses or pockets. Mundalite soils have spodic horizons greater than 18 inches.