ELT 27a

Elevation Range

Minimum:

1171 m

Minimum in ft:

3842 ft

Maximum:

1272 m

Maximum in ft:

4174 ft

Median:

1220 m

Median in ft:

4003 ft

Soil Summary:

mostly shallow to bedrock, a complex of better developed extremely channery loams over extremely channery clays related to phyllite and lacking lime and limy extremely gravelly loams associated with sandstone; dominated by Pima County soil survey map units 24 (Deloro-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 60 percent slopes) and 23 (Deloro-Andrada complex, 5 to 35 percent slopes) which comprise 43% and 36% of the ELT, respectively

Geologic Materials:

alluvium, colluvium and residuum associated with the Bisbee Group (Kbs); Holocene alluvium (Qy); and basin fill deposits and conglomerate with colluvial veneer (QTs, QTsc) which comprise 46%, 33% and 10% of the ELT, respectively

Landforms:

undissected to coarsely dissected, weakly incised mountain hills

Land Type Association: LTA 27

Ecological Unit: Chihuahuan desert on hills and mountians derived from limestone and associated rocks

Map with the ELT 27a polygon highlighted.

ELT 27a

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