Instrument: Advanced Piston Corer
Dataset:
Instrument:
Instrument Short Name: APC
Instrument Description:
The JOIDES Resolution's Advanced Piston Corer (APC) is used in soft ooze and sediments. The APC is a hydraulically actuated piston corer designed to recover relatively undisturbed samples from very soft to firm sediments.
More information is available from IODP (PDF).
PI supplied instrument name: Advanced Piston Coring (APC)
Dataset-specific description
Samples were acquired by the scientific drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution at IODP Site U1385A on November 25th, 2011 by Advanced Piston Coring (APC).