The control section has an average clay content of 35 to 50 percent and an average silt content of less than 20 percent. The A or Ap horizon, where present, has hue of 5YR through 10YR, value of 3 through 6 and chroma of 1 through 5. The horizon is less than 6 inches thick when moist color value is 3. Some eroded pedons have a surface texture of sandy clay loam. The E horizon, where present, has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 4 through 7 and chroma of 2 through 4.
Texture is the same as the A horizon.
The BE horizon, where present, has hue of 5YR through 10YR, value of 5 or 6 and chroma of 4 through 8. It is sandy loam or sandy clay loam in the fine-earth fraction. The Bt1 horizon commonly has hue of 2.5YR through 7.5YR, value of 4 through 6 and chroma of 6 or 8, or less commonly hue of 10YR, value of 5 or 6, and chroma of 4 through 8. Some pedons may have mottles in these same colors. Texture is clay loam, sandy clay or clay in the fine-earth fraction.