The A horizon is neutral or has hue of 7.5YR or 10YR, value of 2 to 4 and chroma of 0 to 3. Texture is loamy fine sand, loamy sand, loamy coarse sand, fine sand, sand, coarse sand, or their gravelly analogs. 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.