Instrument: Advanced Piston Corer

Dataset: 
Metagenomes - Iberian Margin
Instrument: 
Advanced Piston Corer
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).