The Ap or A horizon has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 3 or 4, and chroma of 1 through 3. Texture is loamy sand, loamy fine sand, sandy loam, or fine sandy loam. The horizon has weak granular structure or it is single grain. Consistence is very friable or loose. Individual layers of the C horizon have hue of 7.5YR through 5Y, value of 3 through 6, and chroma of 1 through 4.
Texture ranges from loamy fine sand through coarse sand in the fine-earth fraction.
Some pedons have thin buried sandy A horizons that are very dark grayish brown to black. These are the Acquango , Aldo , Biltmore , Boplain , Caesar , Chute , Dabney , Hodge , Oakville , Pahuk , Penwood , Perks , Pinegrove , Plainfield , Sardak , Sarpy , Scotah , Spessard , Tyner , and Windsor soils. Acquango , Biltmore , Pahuk , Sarduk, and Sarpy soils are from outside LRR R and S. Acquango soils are very slightly to moderately saline. Aldo soils have a water table and saturation within the series control section for as much as 1 month per year in 6 or more out of 10 years. Biltmore and Spessard soils are well drained.