Burbank soils are on terraces and terrace escarpments. Slopes are 0 to 60 percent. Burbank loamy sand - grassland. These soils are usually dry when the soil temperature is above 41 degrees F., and are moist during the winter and spring. Dark colors are inherited from the basaltic parent materialand organic matter content is less than 1 percent throughout.
Reaction is slightly alkaline or moderately alkaline.
Some pedons are cobbly or stony. Texture is loamy sand or loamy fine sand. Coarse fragments range from 5 to 60 percent. It is loamy fine sand, loamy sand, sand, or coarse sand with 35 to 75 percent coarse fragments. It is loamy coarse sand, sand or coarse sand and averages 45 to 90 percent coarse fragments.