Mean annual temperature is about 68 degrees F., and mean annual precipitation is about 52 inches. The range in characteristics includes 50 percent or more of the pedon. Solum thickness is more than 80 inches. This cyclic soil ranges from about 4 to 12 feet from the top of the microhigh to the center of the microlow. Undisturbed areas have gilgai microrelief with microhighs 6 to 18 inches higher than microlow.
Texture is clay or silty clay.
Slickensides and wedge-shaped peds begin at a depth ranging from 8 to 25 inches below the soil surface. The soil is usually moist, but during the summer in some years cracks 1 to 2 inches wide extend from the surface to depths more than 20 inches. An udic soil moisture regime. The soil moisture control section is 4 to 12 inches. There are no other series in the same family.