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A light weight corer for sampling soft subaqueous deposits
Author(s) -
Murray Declan A.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
limnology and oceanography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 197
eISSN - 1939-5590
pISSN - 0024-3590
DOI - 10.4319/lo.1976.21.2.0341
Subject(s) - geology , sedimentary rock , mineralogy , sampling (signal processing) , piston (optics) , geotechnical engineering , geochemistry , engineering , physics , filter (signal processing) , optics , wavefront , electrical engineering
A light weight piston corer to obtain sedimentary cores up to 2.0 m long from soft subaqueous deposits is described. This corer, which may be used in any depth of water, uses cord rubber as the driving force to propel a core tube into the sediments.