Burt, Chippeny, and Roscommon are wetter soils and are in lower positions in the landscape. Keweenaw and Munising are deeper well drained soils and are in higher landscape positions. In many places the well drained, finer-textured Onota soils are in a complex pattern with Deerton soils. Surface runoff is slow. Permeability is rapid or moderately rapid.
Internal drainage is impeded by the bedrock.
Vegetation is mixed northern hardwood forest dominantly of maples. Upper peninsula of Michigan and in northern Wisconsin. The series is of small extent. Delta County, Michigan, 1969.