Thickness of the solum ranges from 30 to 50 inches. Depth to bedrock is more than 60 inches. Depth to the base of the argillic horizon ranges from 30 to 50 inches. Rock fragments range from 0 to 3 percent throughout. The particle size control section averages from 35 to 50 percent clay.
Unlimed soils are strongly acid or very strongly acid.
Mottles with chroma of 2 or less are at depths of 16 to 32 inches. The Ap horizon has hue of 7.5YR or 10YR, value of 3 through 5, and chroma of 2 through 4. Texture is loam, silt loam or silty clay loam. Uneroded or undisturbed pedons commonly have an E horizon 3 to 6 inches thick with hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 4 or 5 and chroma of 3 or 4. The BA horizon, where present, has hue of 7.5YR or 10YR, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 4 through 6.