Texture is sandy loam, silt loam, silty clay loam, loam or clay loam in the fine-earth fraction. 12 to 27 percent and sand content is greater than 20 percent. Consistence is friable or firm. Clay films on faces of peds, in pores, and on rock fragments are in the middle and lower B horizons. Typically, the C horizon has hue of 7.5YR or 10YR, value of 5 or 6, and chroma of 3 through 6.
Texture is silt loam, loam, clay loam, or sandy loam in the fine-earth fraction.
The Blackthorn , Croom , Gainesboro , Hartleton , Irondale , Lew , Mertz , Pattenburg , Trevlac , and Weaverton series are in the same family. Blackthorn soils have rock fragments of sandstone and shale in the upper solum. Gainesboro, Hartleton, and Irondale soils soils have sola less than 40 inches thick. Lew soils contain rock fragments of greenstone. Mertz soils have less than 50 percent rock fragment content and less than 27 percent clay in the upper Bt horizon.