The Ap horizon has hues of 2.5Y through 7.5YR, values of 4 or 5, and chroma of 2 to 4. Texture is silt loam or silty clay loam and gravelly or cobbly modifiers. In forested areas, the A horizon is 1 to 5 thick and has hues of 2.5Y through 7.5YR, values of 2 to 4, and chroma of 1 to 3. Texture is gravelly or cobbly silt loam and gravelly, cobbly, very gravelly or very cobbly modifiers. The E horizon, where present, is 3 to 12 inches thick and has hues of2.5Y through 7.5YR, values of 4 to 6, and chroma of 2 to 4.
Texture is silt loam and gravelly, cobbly, very gravelly or very cobbly modifiers.
The BA or BE horizon, where present, has colors and textures like the Bt1 horizon. The Bt1 horizon has hues of 10YR through 2.5YR, values of 4 to 6, and chroma of 4 to 6. Texture is silt loam or silty clay loam and their gravelly, cobbly, very gravelly and very cobbly modifiers. The Bt2 and Bt3 horizons have hues of 5YR through 10R, values of 3 to 5, and chroma or 4 though 8. Some pedons have chroma of 3 in most individual layers, and some are mottled in shades of brown, olive or gray in the lower part.