Description
Soil samples and laboratory analyses from 4 thousand survey sites, with the field notebooks that describe them.
Provenance
Donated by the creator’s family in 2015. The drive spun up and was imaged behind a write blocker in a single pass. Rebuilt from 3 damaged copies, none of them complete on its own.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
af2c2077e5cac4d3146e8ecd5c5dcf9d13b71148c7b8ba4d7832504f4d4ad5e2- 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.
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: Cedarmore Bay University, Department of Soil Science, Soil survey of the Red River, 1975–1980 (1975–1980). Lazarus Archive, LZ-23185.