The Saylesville series consists of very deep, well drained soils on glacial lake basins, stream terraces, and slackwater areas. They formed in silty and clayey lacustrine deposits.
Permeability is moderately slow.
Slopes range from 0 to 40 percent. Saylesville silt loam - on a 5 percent slope in a cultivated field at an elevation of about 870 feet. 30, T. 9 N., R. 20 E., or 700 feet east and 330 feet north of point where road crosses small stream near center of sec. Solum thickness ranges from 20 to 40 inches. In some pedons, thin strata of silty or loamy deposits are in the sola.