Subsection X.10 is characterized by shallow soils upon granitic bedrock.
Lakes occupy the glacially scoured depressions in the bedrock.
Lawrence and boreal forest regions due to the presence of white pine and red pine along with boreal tree species. There are also iron formation and metasediments. Middle Proterozoic bedrock includes basalt, rhyolite, gabbro, diabase, anorthosite, granite, sandstone, and shale. Soils are derived from a mantle of acid, cobbly and gravelly glacial till of variable depth. Sandy loam is the predominant soil texture, along with loamy sands.