Unlike other diagnostic horizons, the albic horizon is eluvial.
Albic materials were found in 7 orders, 22 suborders, 62 great groups & ~ 1600 soil series in the USA.
Ranking soil series with albic is as follows: Alfisols > Spodosols > Ultisols > Mollisols, Inceptisols > Entisols.
Albic horizons occupy surface, below A, as burial, twice in bisequal soils, & between lamellae.
Two-thirds of soils with albic have good drainage.