The silty mantle is usually 30 to 50 inches thick. Rock fragments of shale or sandstone range from 0 to 10 percent in the silty mantle and from 15 to 60 percent in the 2B and 2C horizons. Reaction of the soil ranges from strongly acid through neutral unless limed. The Ap horizon has hue of 10YR, value of 3 through 5, and chroma of 2 or 3. The Bt horizon has hue of 7.5YR or 10YR, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 4 through 8, and have distinct high and low chroma mottles.
Texture is silt loam or silty clay loam.
The Bx horizon above the 2Bx1 horizon has hue of 7.5YR through 2.5Y, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 2 through 6, and has distinct mottles. Faces of prisms are neutral or have hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 4 through 7, and chroma of 0 or 1. Structure is very coarse prismatic parting to platy or subangular blocky. The 2B and 2C horizons have hue of 2.5YR through 2.5Y, value of 3 through 5, and chroma of 2 through 4. Texture of the fine-earth fraction is loam or silt loam.