Pacific All items are one of a kind and will be removed from the website after they're purchased. Click any item below to go to it's page, where more information Open sections to see more from hydrothermal vents, Washington Margin and Juan de Fuca Strait, and areas off California.
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| 10.75" x 1.5 Rim is from Santa Barbara Basin. Wisps from eel grass in center and well is a mixture of seaglass and turquoise glass. | | | Tubeworm Casing and Hydrothermal Vent Granules Indian Ocean Shrimp & Mid Atlantic Ridge Fried Shrimp? & Earth Crust Vent Granules & Tubeworm Casing | ||
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| 16" x 4.5" Center from 5 Antarctica Sites surrounded by drillings into mid-Atlantic Ridge at Kane Fracture Zone, framed by mud from a Kila Moana cruise to Lau Basin, north of New Zealand -- thanks to many many people and their reasearch. Exterior lavender assembled from refined materials. | | | 7" x 16" This sediment from north of New Zealand (coordinates written on right side handle area) is the only Pacific sediment I have that shows so much color range -- most are brown with less variety. This comes into golds and makes crystals. | ||
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| 7" wide Rim is seafloor sediment from Santa Barbara Basin. Crushed clear glass in the bird shape intensified the blue from cobalt in the surrounding glaze. A couple of bumps cause this price to be lower -- click and you'll see a white bump near the top of a wing. | | | 5" x 3.25" Porcelain Coordinates written on exterior. Lau Basin is north of New Zealand. R/V Kila Moana. Exterior glazes assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| Hydrothermal vent granules brushed on the vent shape and Monterey Bay sediment on the top third. Click to see bigger images and more description of what's currently available. Hydrothermal Vent & Monterey bay Hydrothermal Vent & Monterey Bay Hydrothermal Vent and Monterey Bay Monterey Bay and Hydrothermal Vent | | | 4" x 2.5" Porcelain Nothing but this sediment applied thickly and melted. To me this is georgeous with mystery, crustals, and clues to chemistry. | ||
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| 4.75" x 1.75" Porcelain and sea glass center. Brown is the marine sediment glaze. Writing is above the foot. Celadon glaze assembled from refined materials. | | | 5" x 4" Porcelain and sea glass center. Exterior is sediument from the seafloor off coast of Oregon U.S.A. where crew on R/V Maurice Ewing tried to retreive a seismometer -- resulting in sediment coming to The Soft Earth from Hydrate's Ridge -- a glaze material that appears to have unusually metallic chemistry. A thin brushload of it under celadon on the interior shows clues to copper. Celadon glaze assembled from refined materials. | ||
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| Exterior Writing Locates Washington Margin Mud Washington Margin off Columbia River Ridges & Outflows Off Columbia River | | | Monterey Bay is the only place where I was on a ship that collected samples. Pelican in the Sanctuary Pelican in the Sanctuary Monterey Bay Monterey Bay Sea Weed, Sea Glass, and Monterey Bay sediment Monterey Bay Blue Cross = Latitude Longitude Symbol | ||
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| Gulf of Farallones Marine Sanctuary Pelican Over the Farrallones North Atlantic & California Current | | | 9.5" x 2.5" Santa Barbara Basin exterior glaze. | ||
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| 14" long x 7" wide Gulf of Mexico and Santa Barbara Basin plus some Atlantic Ocean sediments (coordinates written on back). | |||||
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