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. These are the Abscota , Chute , Dabney , Hodge , Oakville , Penwood , Perks , Plainfield , Sarpy , Suncook , Tyner , Westport and Windsor series in the same family. Abscota, Chute, Hodge and Sarpy soils are slightly acid to moderately alkaline throughout. Oakville, Plainfield and Windsor soils are dominantly sand or fine sand in the control section. Penwood soils have hue of 5YR in the B horizon.