The Bt horizon has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 5 to 7, chroma of 4 to 8. Mottles are in shades of brown, yellow, and gray. The lower Bt may have gray matrix with chroma of 1 or 2 and mottled in shades of gray or brown. Texture is sandy clay loam or sandy loam with an average clay content of 18 to 35 percent and less than 30 percent silt content. The BCg horizon, where present, has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 5 to 7, and chroma of 1 or 2 or it mottled in shades of these colors.
Texture is sandy loam, fine sandy loam, with thin strata of heavier textures in some pedons.
The 2C horizon, where present, has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 5 to 8, and chroma of 3 to 8 or it is commonly mottled in shades of gray, brown, or yellow. The 2Cg horizon has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 5 to 8, and chroma of 1 or 2 or it is commonly mottled in shades of gray, brown, or yellow. There are no other series in the same family. Altavista , Bertie , Dragston , Foreston , Goldsboro , Kalmia , Lumbee , Lynchburg , Ogeechee , Whitwell series are in closely related families. Altavista and Bertie soils have mixed mineralogy.