Open AccessDAMOCLES: a DAshing MOnolith Cutter for fine sectioning of peats and sediments into LargE Slices
Author(s) -
JOOSTEN HANS,
KLERK PIM DE
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
boreas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.95
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1502-3885
pISSN - 0300-9483
DOI - 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2007.tb01182.x
Subject(s) - monolith , sample (material) , geology , resolution (logic) , high resolution , sampling (signal processing) , macrofossil , computer science , paleontology , remote sensing , telecommunications , physics , chemistry , artificial intelligence , detector , biochemistry , holocene , catalysis , thermodynamics
Joosten, H. & de Klerk, P. 2007 (January): DAMOCLES: a DAshing MOnolith Cutter for fine sectioning of peats and sediments into LargE Slices. Boreas , Vol. 36, pp. 76–81. Oslo. ISSN 0300–9483. Simple cutting devices such as used in the printing industry allow precise and fine sectioning of frozen peats and sediments, thus enabling research with high temporal resolution. Large slices are useful in the collection of multiple synchronous subsamples for multidisciplinary research. This article describes the apparatus (called DAMOCLES) and its operation, and presents some examples from practice. These include combined microfossil, macrofossil and chemical analyses of the same sample with a sample resolution of 0.5 cm (temporal resolution c . 1 year): rapid changes occur that would have remained unnoticed with a coarser sampling distance. The final example presents a sample resolution of only 0.5 mm. These examples illustrate the possible uses of the DAMOCLES apparatus in palaeoecological research.