Description
Soil samples and laboratory analyses from 11 thousand survey sites, with the field notebooks that describe them.
Provenance
Deposited by Hazeldale University Library, which had held it unread for years. The drive’s circuit board had failed and was replaced with one from a matching drive. Independent reads agree bit for bit.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
a47b5365473272cd44cf9443095a4260077881d193923498ddd198a10e2d2109- Last verified
- Oct 8, 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 under the work’s license.
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: Blackfield Bay University, Department of Soil Science, Soil survey of the Midland, 1980–1982 (1980–1982). Lazarus Archive, LZ-14230.