It has hue of 10YR to 5Y, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 2 or 3. Texture range is the same as the lower part of the B, but typically it is coarser textured than the overlying horizon. The Cd horizon has hue of 10YR to 5Y, value of 4 to 7, and chroma of 2 to 6. It is comprised of loamy layers and sandy lenses with a composite texture of loamy sand, loamy fine sand, fine sandy loam, sandy loam, or their gravelly analogues. They constitute more than 20 percent of the horizon.
Structure is weak or moderate, thin to thick platy or the horizon is massive.
Consistence is firm or very firm except in individual lenses where it is friable to loose. Some pedons have a friable C horizon above the Cd that is up to 8 inches thick. These are the Chesuncook , Colonel , Conant , Crary , Dixfield , Dixmont , Mundal , Peru , Sunapee , Telos , and Worden series. Chesuncook, Conant, and Telos soils have more clay in the particle-size control section. Crary and Dixmont soils have more silt and very fine sand in the solum.