Westmore soils are on summits side slopes, and benches and formed in a silty mantle 20 to 36 inches thick overlying clayey residuum from limestone, shale, and siltstone. Westmoreland soils are on interfluves and back slopes where interbedded sandstone, siltstone, and some shale bedrock is at a depth of 40 to 72 inches. Moderately well drained. Runoff is moderate to rapid. Permeability is moderately slow.
Some areas are in forest and some are cleared and in hay and pasture.
A small part is used for growing cultivated crops. Woods are of mixed hardwoods. Brookside soils are of moderate extent. Marshall County, West Virginia, 1956. The Brookside series concept is near the Mollic subgroup.