Ecological Land Type

ELT 13h

Elevation Range
Minimum: 
1708 m
Minimum in ft: 
5603 ft
Maximum: 
2483 m
Maximum in ft: 
8147 ft
Median: 
2109 m
Median in ft: 
6919 ft
Soil Summary: 
dominant soils are shallow to moderately deep to bedrock, very flaggy and flaggy loam and gravelly fine sandy loam surfaces over very channery sandy loams clays and very gravelly fine sandy loams, no lime present, weak to strong development; unit dominated by Pima County soil survey map units 77 (Spudrock-Lemmon complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes) and 76 (Spudrock-Far-Rock outcrop complex, 25 to 65 percent slopes). These units comprise 97% and 2% of the ELT, respectively
Geologic Materials: 
alluvium, colluvium and residuum associated with the Catalina-Rincon igneous metamorphic complex (TXm) comprises 100% of the unit
Landforms: 
moderately dissected, moderately incised mountain slopes (especially lower two-thirds of the unit)