Elevation ranges from 300 to 2500 feet above mean sea level. These are the Chesuncook , Elliottsville , Monarda and Telos soils. The moderately well drained Chesuncook, poorly drained Monarda, and somewhat poorly drained Telos soils are all very deep to bedrock soils at lower elevations on the landscape. Elliottsville soils are well drained and moderately deep to bedrock. Somewhat excessively drained.
Permeability is moderate.
Common tree species include red spruce, white spruce, balsam fir, sugar maple, paper birch, yellow birch and eastern white pine with some northern white cedar. The series is of moderate extent. Franklin County Area and Part of Somerset County, Maine Soil Survey, 1992. Lithic Haplorthods - have a lithic contact within 20 inches of the mineral soil surface. Source of data used in establishing taxonomic class and range in characteristics is composite data from the Field Appraisal of Resource Management Systems compiled by Dr. Paul R. Hepler, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine.