The Deerfield series consists of very deep, moderately well drained soils formed in glaciofluvial deposits. They are nearly level to strongly sloping soils on terraces, deltas, and outwash plains.
Permeability is rapid in the solum and rapid or very rapid in the substratum.
Deerfield loamy sand in a cultivated field. 42 degrees 35 minutes 35 seconds N. and long. 72 degrees 30 minutes 50 seconds W., NAD 27. Solum thickness ranges from 15 to 40 inches. Gravel, generally fine pebbles, ranges from 0 to 15 percent in the solum and 0 to 20 percent in the substratum.