Description
Soil samples and laboratory analyses from 12 thousand survey sites, with the field notebooks that describe them.
Provenance
Sent to Lazarus by post, with a note asking whether anything could be saved. Two copies were found; together they gave a complete image. Reassembled from fragments spread across several carriers.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
6eaddf15c2584137679de77762f91885459bbe1378fe673207806bfe772d70b1- Last verified
- Sep 2, 2026, by Vigil
- Migrated to
- CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
Access
Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. Copies may be taken away.
Reading-room copies are migrated to CSV with a data dictionary, with the original files kept. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.
Cite as: Riverbridge Springs University, Department of Soil Science, Soil survey of the Western Ranges, 1989–1996 (1989–1996). Lazarus Archive, LZ-03430.