ELT 11d

Elevation Range

Minimum:

1009 m

Minimum in ft:

3312 ft

Maximum:

1495 m

Maximum in ft:

4906 ft

Median:

1146 m

Median in ft:

3760 ft

Soil Summary:

dominant soils are shallow to granite and similar rocks; very gravelly sandy loams throughout or gravelly coarse sandy loam over sandy clay loam; no lime; no or modest soil development (clay accumulation); dominated by Pima County soil survey map unit 70 (Romero-Oracle complex, 25 to 60 percent slopes). This unit comprises 78% of the ELT

Geologic Materials:

alluvium, colluvium and residuum associated with the Catalina-Rincon igneous metamorphic complex (TXm) and heterogeneous granodioritic rocks of the north White Tank Mountains (Xgd) which comprise 98% and 2% of the unit, respectively

Landforms:

moderately to finely dissected, moderately to deeply incised mountain slopes

Land Type Association: LTA 11

Ecological Unit: Upper Sonoran desert on hills and mountains derived from granite, gneiss, and similar rocks

Map with the ELT 11d polygon highlighted.