Description
Soil samples and laboratory analyses from 10 thousand survey sites, with the field notebooks that describe them.
Provenance
Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The label reads ‘Ask before using’. About 64 percent of the data could be read; the gaps are mapped.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
76a71f4b6c134741e94b7aa259a5559f2fcdce2b8e2ec4e5894e9d57b29a2916- Last verified
- Oct 29, 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: Moorwater University, Department of Soil Science, Soil survey of the Red River, 1986–1997 (1986–1997). Lazarus Archive, LZ-39807.