The Bk horizon has hue of 10YR, 2.5Y or 5Y, value of 5 to 8 dry and 4 to 6 moist, and chroma of 2 to 4. It is loam, silt loam, silty clay loam, clay loam or sandy clay loam. It is slightly alkaline or moderately alkaline. It contains disseminated and segregated carbonates. The calcium carbonate equivalent is 6 to 20 percent.
Segregated carbonates occurs as common or many masses or threads.
The Cr horizon is soft weathered sandstone, siltstone or mudstone and has hue of 10YR, 2.5Y or 5Y, and value of 4 to 7 and 3 to 5 moist, and chroma of 1 to 3. It is slightly alkaline or moderately alkaline. Some of the layers exhibit the platiness of the original rock structure and others are massive. Some pedons have a loam, clay loam or silty clay loam C horizon above the Cr horizon. These are the Bookcliff , Bullflat , Dooley , Empedrado , Fairfield , Farnuf , Felor , Greenway , Gurney , Hangdo , Krem , Lefor , Lininger , Livona , Martinsdale , Moen , Sponseller , Trag , Ulrant , Vida , Watrous , Wemple, Williams and Yegen series in the same family and the Morton series.