Description
Soil samples and laboratory analyses from 5 thousand survey sites, with the field notebooks that describe them.
Provenance
Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Thornworth. The drive’s circuit board had failed and was replaced with one from a matching drive. All files were recovered; 14 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
d43e7cb3f293502c71d4cf5221d916ae58b6c7cd431b7d6c5a37baccb73669fe- Last verified
- Oct 13, 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: Wellsworth Falls University, Department of Soil Science, Soil survey of the High Plains, 1998–2001 (1998–2001). Lazarus Archive, LZ-27628.