Description
Soil samples and laboratory analyses from 7 thousand survey sites, with the field notebooks that describe them.
Provenance
Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Ironfield. The label reads ‘Ask before using’. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
56e73f2a95ea1fdc35abaefd65abeb861b97f3e1cb0a8be70210bc1e0cabccc0- Last verified
- Oct 25, 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.
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: Port Redville University, Department of Soil Science, Soil survey of the Capital Region, 1984–1994 (1984–1994). Lazarus Archive, LZ-12560.