The E horizon, where present, has hue 7.5YR or 10YR, value of 3 to 7 and chroma of 1 or 2. Texture is loamy sand, sand, coarse sand, or their gravelly analogs. The Bw horizon has hue of 7.5YR to 2.5Y, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 4 to 8. Texture is loamy sand, sand, coarse sand, or their gravelly analogs. The BC horizon, where present, has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value and chroma of 4 to 6.
Texture is sand, coarse sand, very coarse sand, or their gravelly analogs.
The C horizon has hue of 10YR to 5Y, value of 5 to 7 and chroma of 2 to 6. Texture is coarse sand or very coarse sand, or their gravelly analogs. Sand textures occur in some horizons up to 5 inches thick. These are the Abscota , Chute , Dabney , Hodge , Oakville , Penwood , Perks , Plainfield , Sarpy , Suncook , Tyner , Westport and Windsor series in the same family. Abscota, Chute, Hodge and Sarpy soils are slightly acid to moderately alkaline throughout.