The Bw horizon has hue of 7.5YR or 10YR, value of 5 or 6, and chroma of 4 or 6. Texture is sandy loam, loam, gravelly loam or cobbly loam. Texture ranges from coarse sand to loamy sand in the fine earth fraction. The C horizon has hue of 7.5YR through 5Y, value of 4 through 8, and chroma of 2 through 8 and commonly are variegated. Low chromas are inherent and not due to wetness.
Texture ranges from coarse sand to loamy sand in the fine earth fraction.
The Gloucester and Hoosic series are members of the same family. Gloucester soils have stones or boulders throughout and have erratics. The Hoosic soils have water-sorted gravel throughout the control section and are stratified in the lower part of the series control section. The Alton , Berks , Bremo , Calvin , Cardiff , Chenango , Coeburn, Dekalb , Elliber , Lehew , Manlius , Mt. Airy , Occoquan , Oqsuaga, Parker , Steinsburg , Stumptown , Teas and Tunkhannock series are similar soils in related families. All of these series have textures averaging finer than loamy fine sand within the particle-size control section.