The solum thickness and depth to hard metasandstone bedrock range from 20 to 40 inches. Rock fragments are mostly gravel, channers, cobbles, or stones of metasedimentary rocks range from 0 to 50 percent in the solum but the control section averages less than 35 percent. Rock fragments range from 5 to 50 percent below the solum. The soil ranges from strongly acid to extremely acid, unless limed. The A or Ap horizon has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 3 to 6, and chroma of 1 to 4.
Texture is loam, silt loam, fine sandy loam, coarse sandy loam, or sandy loam.
The BE, BA, or E horizon, where present, has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 3 to 6. Texture is loam, fine sandy loam, or sandy loam. The Bt horizon has hue of 5YR to 10YR, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 4 to 8. Texture is loam, clay loam, sandy loam, or sandy clay loam. Lithochromic mottles, if present, are in shades of red, brown, or yellow.