Slopes range from 0 to 8 percent. Solum thickness above the petrocalcic horizon ranges from 8 to 20 inches. Weighted average coarse fragments in the solum range from a few to about 30 percent by volume and increase with depth. The A horizon has colors of 7.5YR or 10YR value of 3 to 5 and chroma of 2 to 3. Moist values are less than 3.5.
Texture is fine sandy loam, loam or clay loam or their gravelly or very gravelly counterparts.
Clay content ranges from about 12 to 35 percent. The upper part of the Bkm horizon is laminar in most pedons. The BCk horizon is weakly cemented caliche or pinkish limy earth of fine sandy loam, loam, sandy clay loam or clay loam texture. There are no other series in the same family. Similar series include Cho , Darl , Espy , Kimbrough , Mereta , Olmos , and Queeny series.