The soils formed in loamy glacial till over loose, sandy, or reworked outwash. Mean annual precipitation ranges from 35 to 50 inches and mean annual air temperature is 45 to 50 degrees F. Mean frost-free season is about 145 days. These are the competing Canton series and the Carver , Eastchop , Merrimac , Plymouth , Sudbury , Hinckley and Nantucket soils. Canton soils have substrata of sandy glacial till. Carver, Eastchop, and Plymouth soils are sandy throughout.
Hinckley soils are sandy skeletal.
Merrimac soils do not have a contrasting particle-size class. Nantucket soils are loamy throughout and have dense till substrata. Permeability is moderately rapid in the solum and rapid or very rapid in the substratum. Mostly forested with poor quality scarlet, black and white oaks and pitch pine. Essentially none is used for crops or pasture.