The Patton series consists of very deep, poorly drained and very poorly drained soils formed in glaciolacustrine deposits on stream terraces and glacial lake plains.
Permeability is moderate in the solum and moderate or moderately slow in the underlying material.
Slope gradients range from 0 to 2 percent. Patton silty clay loam - nearly level in a cultivated field at an elevation of about 385 feet above mean sea level. West., NAD 27. The solum typically is 30 to 40 inches in thickness, and ranges from 24 to 55 inches. The solum averages less than 9 percent sand.