Lazarus Archive · LZ-27416

Soil survey of the High Plains, 1975–1979

Crowworth University, Department of Soil Science, 1975–1979. Research data for scientific instruments.

Description

Soil samples and laboratory analyses from 2 thousand survey sites, with the field notebooks that describe them.

Provenance

Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. Most of the work survives, but some files are lost. The damage map lists them.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
b4a26c12d936f9aa607a97fb4d06d03e0c31d25ef2a79e85bcd803b2333d1fe9
Last verified
Oct 3, 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: Crowworth University, Department of Soil Science, Soil survey of the High Plains, 1975–1979 (1975–1979). Lazarus Archive, LZ-27416.

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