Pressure surfaces and slickensides range from common to many. Reaction is extremely acid or very strongly acid. The BCg horizon has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 6 or 7 and chroma of 1 or 2. Brownish, yellowish, or reddish redoximorphic features range from few to many. Some pedons have a mixed matrix of these colors.
Texture is sandy clay loam, silty clay loam, or clay loam.
Reaction ranges from extremely acid to moderately acid. Ozias is the only competing series in the same family. Similar soils are the Gladewater , Kobel , Leeper , Litro , Overton , Tamba , Tuscumbia , Una , and Urbo . Gladewater soils have a pH value of more than 5.0 throughout the upper 20 inches. Kobel, Leeper, and Tuscumbia soils are members of a Vertic subgroup.