Texture of the upper part of the Bw horizon, within a depth of 10 inches from the soil surface, has the same range as the A horizon. Below 10 inches texture is loamy fine sand, loamy sand, fine sand, sand or coarse sand. Structure is weak, very fine to medium granular or subangular blocky, or is single grain. The BC horizon, where present, has hue of 7.5YR to 2.5Y, value of 3 to 6, and chroma of 2 to 4. Texture range is the same as the lower part of the Bw horizon.
Structure is weak, very fine to medium granular, or is single grain.
The C horizon has hue of 7.5YR to 5Y, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 1 to 4. Texture is loamy fine sand, loamy sand, fine sand, sand or coarse sand. It is commonly single grain but may be very weak or weak granular. All of these soils are from outside of region R. Algansee soils have an irregular decrease of organic matter with depth. Altmar soils have rock fragments dominated by sandstone.