Texture of the fine-earth fraction is loamy sand or loamy fine sand. In some pedons thin subhorizons are sand and lack pebbles. Consistence is friable or very friable. The pH is 6.5 or more at the contact with the C horizon. The C horizon has hue of 7.5YR or 10YR, value of 4 through 8 and chroma of 2 through 8.
Texture is very gravelly or very cobbly sand, or it is stratified sand and pebbles.
Hinckley, Manchester and Otisville are moderately acid or more strongly acid in the C horizon and, in addition, Manchester soils have 5YR or redder hues throughout. Mecosta soils have a texture of the fine-earth fraction that is dominatly sand in the solum. Multorpor soils lack B horizons and have chroma of 2 or less below the A horizon. Quonset soils lack free carbonates in the C and are dominated by slate, shale and phyllite. Bonaparte soils are nearly level to very steep soils on glacial outwash terraces, kames, and eskers where the coarse material has been derived mainly from limestone and marble.