Ecological Land Type

ELT 142b

Elevation Range
Minimum: 
781 m
Minimum in ft: 
2562 ft
Maximum: 
998 m
Maximum in ft: 
3273 ft
Median: 
858 m
Median in ft: 
2815 ft
Soil Summary: 
very deep, very gravelly sandy loam or sandy loam surface soils and extremely cobbly sandy loam and loamy sand to sandy loam and fine sandy loam subsurface layers; lime lacking except for coatings on cobbles and gravels and traces lower in the soil, no development; dominated by Pima County soil survey map units 19 (Comoro sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes) and 37 (Keysto extremely gravelly fine sandy loam, 2 to 8 percent slopes). These units comprise 51% and 48% of the unit, respectively
Geologic Materials: 
river alluvium associated with Holocene river deposits, undivided (Qyr), modern channel deposits (Qyc), and Holocene piedmont alluvium, undivided (Qy) which comprise 70%, 14% and 11% of the ELT, respectively
Landforms: 
mostly undissected floodplain and lower river terraces
LTA 142

Map with the ELT 142b polygon highlighted.Photo Point 281, Photo Point 282, Photo Point 283Photo Point 096, Photo Point 098, Photo Point 099, Photo Point 100, Photo Point 101, Photo Point 105Photo Point 109, Photo Point 110, Photo Point 111, Photo Point 112Photo Point 201, Photo Point 202, Photo Point 204Photo Point 214, Photo Point 215Photo Point 205, Photo Point 206Photo Point 032Photo Point 029