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Quick : What ’s your official state filth ? If you ’re like most Americans , you probably have no idea what you ’ve been standing on all these year — or that you evenhadan prescribed state grime .
Well , wonder no more . Retired art director Les Gregor learn a new way to use his creative vigor when he dropped a piece of tape on the primer . When he picked it up , according toSlate.com , it had a perfect , consistent coating ofsoilon its gummy side .
This soil map of the United States contains samples of each official state soil.
Gregor , 85 , then decided to design a mapping of the United States with each state underwrite in a fragile film of that state ’s prescribed soil ; land agriculture department assisted by sending a sample of their fine grime to Gregor . On his map , Nebraska , for case , is covered with the State Department ’s dark brownHoldregeloam , while Maine is represented by its paleChesuncookglacial stain .
Gregor sell his mapping ( $ 195 including framing ) from his home in Montreal . Asked why he chose to evolve maps of the United States and not his aboriginal Canada , he told Slate.com , " We only have 11 provinces and not as much soil variance . It would be irksome . "
