It is silt loam, clay loam, or silty clay loam and has 18 to 35 percent clay and less than 15 percent coarser than very fine sand. It has few or common clay films. Soil reaction is very strongly acid to strongly acid. Redox concentrations are distinct strong brown or grayish brown. It is fine sandy loam, loam or silt loam and has 10 to 25 percent clay.
Soil reaction is extremely acid to strongly acid.
These are the Cidermill , Elk , Elkinsville , Gallipolis , Parke , Pike , Rosine , Stonehead , Vernonia , and Wellston series. Cidermill, Elkinsville, Parke, Pike, and Wellston soils have ochric epipedons and an E horizon. Elk soils have a mean annual soil temperature greater than 54 degrees F. and an ochric epipedon. Gallipolis soils have ochric epipedons. Rosine soils have a mean annual soil temperature greater than 54 degrees F., and E horizon, and channer shaped rock fragments in the solum.