Texture is silt loam or rarely loam. Some pedons have a BE transitional horizon with colors similar to the Bt horizon. The Bt horizon has hue of 10YR or 7.5YR, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 4 to 8, or hue of 2.5Y, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 4 or 6. Below depths of 10 inches from its upper boundary there are few to many redox depletions of 2 or lower chroma, and most pedons have few to many yellowish red or red redox accumulations below that depth. In some pedons the Bt4 horizon is a combination of gray, brown, and yellow colors representing redox depletions and accumulations without a dominant matrix color.
Texture is silty clay loam, silty clay, or clay.
The C horizon has hue of 2.5Y or 10YR, value of 5 or 6 and chroma of 1 to 4, or is neutral. Redoximorphic features range from common to many in shades of yellow, brown, and gray or is a combination of these colors representing redox accumulations and depletions without a dominant matrix color. Texture is commonly silty clay or clay and rarely silty clay loam. The Carbonton series is the only competing series in this family. Carbonton soils formed in residuum of the Triassic Basin of the Southern Piedmont .