Slope ranges from 3 to 60 percent. Mean annual temperature is about 38 degrees F, and mean annual precipitation is about 38 inches at the type location. 45 degrees 58 minutes 40 seconds N. and long. 69 degrees 45 minutes 02 seconds W.,NAD 27. Depth of mineral soil over bedrock ranges from 10 to 20 inches.
Texture is silt loam, loam and very fine sandy loam in the fine-earth fraction.
The weighted average of clay in the particle-size control section is 10 to 18 percent. Rock fragment content ranges from 5 to 35 percent by volume. Stones and boulders cover from 0 to 15 percent of the surface. Consistence is very friable or friable. Reaction ranges from extremely acid to moderately acid.