Friday, April 30, 2010

Bolt of Red Clay







Acrylic on canvas



30" by 40"













Portrait of epikarst soil profile in hillside above Korfos Harbor, eastern Korinthia, Greece.


A Lithic Rhodoxeralfs by Soil Taxonomy, 11 ed. (US Dept. of Agriculture)
A Leptic Luvisols (Rhodic) by World Reference Base, 2007 (UN-FAO soil taxonomy

(c) 2010 Jay Stratton Noller

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Finger flow









Acrylic on canvas



30" by 40"









Portrait of a paleosol under the sand dune complex at Seal Rock State Park, Oregon. Stains of ferric sesquioxide finger flow features and gibbsite haloes of long-decayed root zones
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(c) 2010 Jay Stratton Noller

Morning coastline, Korfos, Greece






Acrylic on canvas



40" by 30"













Portrait of epikarst soil profile in shoreface of Korfos Harbor, eastern Korinthia, Greece.


A Lithic Rhodoxeralfs by Soil Taxonomy, 11 ed. (US Dept. of Agriculture)
A Leptic Luvisols (Rhodic) by World Reference Base, 2007 (UN-FAO soil taxonomy

(c) 2010 Jay Stratton Noller