Benson soils are in associated deposits less than 20 inches thick over bedrock. Aurora and Angola soils are more poorly drained, moderately deep associates over shale bedrock. Newstead soils are somewhat poor and poorly drained soils in associated depressions and on footslopes. Well and moderately well drained. Runoff is moderate to rapid.
Permeability is moderate or moderately slow in the subsoil and substratum.
Crops include hay, corn, oats, wheat, and some vegetables. Woodlots have red and white oak, sugar maple, white ash, hickory, black cherry, and companion species. Ontario lowlands of western New York, the northern edge of the Allegany Plateau in Central New York, locally in the Mohawk and Hudson Valleys of New York, and in northwestern New Jersey. Wassaic soils are moderately extensive. Dutchess County, New York, 1939.