Merrimac soils do not have a contrasting particle-size class. Nantucket soils are loamy throughout and have dense till substrata. Permeability is moderately rapid in the solum and rapid or very rapid in the substratum. Mostly forested with poor quality scarlet, black and white oaks and pitch pine. Essentially none is used for crops or pasture.
Some areas are in urban uses.
The series is of moderate extent. Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 1984. Classification changed from sandy to coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy skeletal. These soils have previously been included with the Canton series in mapping.