Featured Soil

Slea Head, Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland

This soil profile resides on Slea Head on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. This place is always windy and the soil has eroded away. We can now see the exposed rocks and the grasses that are sturdy enough to withstand the wind.

Here is a landscape view of the same area.

And here is a sandy soil from a place on the same Peninsula but on the Southern side. This is beach sand that resides in a little cove right by a castle. What you are seeing is the reflection in the sand of the sky and rocks above as the water travels in rivulets back to the sea.