The competing Agawam and Haven and the Merrimac , and Warwick soils are on nearby glacial outwash kames and plains. The competing Narragansett and Barnstable series, Brookfield , Charlton , Cheshire , Dutchess , Gloucester , Hollis , Montauk , and Paxton soils are on nearby glaciated uplands. Brookfield, Charlton, Cheshire, Dutchess, Gloucester, Hollis, Montauk, and Paxton soils lack a contrasting particle size in the control section. Runoff is medium. Internal drainage is medium.
Permeability is moderately rapid in the solum and rapid in the substratum.
Some areas have been cleared of surface stones and are used for crops and pasture. Native vegetation is forest composed of white pine, red, white and black oaks, hickory, red maple, sugar maple, gray birch, yellow birch, beech, hemlock, and white ash. The series is extensive. Herkimer County, New York, 1969. Cation exchange activity class based upon available data for 4 pedons.