The A horizon has hue of 7.5YR or 10YR, value and chroma of 2 or 3. The A2 horizon, where present, has hue of 5YR through 10YR, value and chroma of 2 or 3. The Ap horizon is 4 to 9 inches thick and has hue of 5YR or 7.5YR, value of 3 or 4 and chroma of 2 through 4. The A horizons are silt loam, loam, or silty clay loam in the fine-earth fraction. The E horizon has hue of 5YR, 7.5YR, 10YR, value of 4 through 6 and chroma of 2 or 3.
Texture is silt loam or silty clay loam in the fine-earth fraction.
Some pedons have a BA horizon with hue of 10YR or 7.5YR, value of 3 or 4, and chroma of 4. Texture is silt loam or silty clay loam in the fine-earth fraction. The Bt horizon has hue of 2.5YR through 7.5YR value of 4 or 5 and chroma of 3 or 4. Texture is silty clay loam, silt loam, or clay loam, with or without thin subhorizons of silty clay in the fine-earth fraction. The B horizon has moderate or strong fine to coarse subangular or angular blocky structure.