If the A horizon is eroded or thin, the soil cracks to the surface. Pressure faces and slickensides range from few to common throughout the Bt horizon and in the BC and C horizon of some pedons. The average clay content of the control section ranges from 40 to 50 percent, and COLE ranges from 0.07 to 0.10. The thickness of the A horizon averages less than 10 inches in 50 percent or more of the pedon but ranges up to 15 inches in subsoil troughs. It has colors with hue of 7.5YR or 10YR, value of 3 to 6, and chroma of 2 to 4.
Texture is fine sandy loam, very fine sandy loam, loam, silt loam or their gravelly counterparts.
Siliceous pebbles range from 0 to 35 percent by volume. Reaction ranges from moderately acid to slightly alkaline. The boundary between the A and Bt horizon is commonly wavy. It is abrupt over subsoil crests and clear in subsoil troughs with an abrupt textural between the A and Bt horizons. The Bt horizon has a base saturation of 75 to 100 percent by sum of the cations.