These are the competing Dixfield and Skerry series and the Becket , Berkshire , Brayton , Hermon , Lyman , Marlow , Monadnock , Pillsbury , and Tunbridge series. Dixfield, Skerry, Berkshire, Becket, Hermon, Marlow, and Monadnock soils are better drained and occur in higher positions on the landscape. Brayton and Pillsbury soils are wetter and are in lower positions on the landscape. Lyman and Tunbridge soils are better drained, more shallow to bedrock, and occur on higher knolls on the landscape. Somewhat poorly drained.
Permeability is moderate in the solum and moderately slow or slow in the substratum.
Common tree species include red maple, eastern white pine, paper birch, red spruce and balsam fir. Areas cleared of stones are used mainly for hay and pasture. The series is of large extent. Oxford County, Maine, 1987. The classification is updated with this revision to Coarse-loamy, isotic, frigid, shallow Aquic Haplorthods.