Canton soils have substrata of sandy glacial till. Carver, Eastchop, and Plymouth soils are sandy throughout. Hinckley soils are sandy skeletal. Merrimac soils do not have a contrasting particle-size class. Nantucket soils are loamy throughout and have dense till substrata.
Permeability is moderately rapid in the solum and rapid or very rapid in the substratum.
Mostly forested with poor quality scarlet, black and white oaks and pitch pine. Essentially none is used for crops or pasture. Some areas are in urban uses. The series is of moderate extent. Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 1984.