Claverack and Collamer soils are in nearby glacio-lacustrine deposits. Madrid, Sodus, Ontario and their wetter associates are on nearby glacial till plains. Wareham soils are poorly drained associates in depressions. Moderately well to somewhat poorly drained. Runoff is slow.
Permeability is moderately rapid in the surface layer and rapid in the subsoil and substratum.
Some areas are reverting to the northern hardwoods, such as red maple, which is the climax cover. The Erie and Ontario Lake Plains, and Mohawk and Hudson Valleys of New York, and the west-central lower peninsula of Michigan. The series is of small extent. Oswego County, New York, 1950.