Ecological Land Type

ELT 198b

Elevation Range
Minimum: 
1063 m
Minimum in ft: 
3487 ft
Maximum: 
1971 m
Maximum in ft: 
6468 ft
Median: 
1530 m
Median in ft: 
5020 ft
Soil Summary: 
dominant soils are very shallow and shallow to granite, gneiss and similar rocks; very cobbly loams, extremely and very gravelly sandy loams, or very gravelly loams throughout; no lime; no or little soil development (surface organic matter accumulation); the mapped area is dominated by Pima County soil survey map unit 40 (Lampshire-Romero- Rock outcrop complex, 10 to 65 percent slopes) and 20 (Cortaro-Rock outcrop-Faraway complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes) which comprise 81% and 11% of the unit, respectively
Geologic Materials: 
alluvium, colluvium and residuum associated with the Catalina-Rincon igneous metamorphic complex (TXm) which comprises 100% of the unit
Landforms: 
coarsely to moderately dissected, moderately to deeply incised mountain slopes