Lithologic discontinuities in the solum are common but are absent in some pedons. Texture is silt loam or loam in the fine-earth fraction. Some pedons have a thin silt loam E horizon and others have a BA or BE horizon which is less than 10 inches thick. Texture is clay loam, silty clay loam, silt loam, or loam. The weighted average clay content in the top 20 inches of the Bt horizon ranges from 27 to 35 percent.
Structure is weak or moderate, fine through coarse subangular blocky or blocky.
Some pedons have coarse or very coarse prismatic structure. Consistence is firm or friable. Some pedons have C horizons with color and texture similar to the B horizon. The Croom , Elliber , Gainesboro , Hartleton , Irondale , Lew , and Pattenburg series are in the same family. Bt horizons and very gravelly loamy sand BC horizons.