Instrument: Multi Corer

Dataset: 
DIC and Isotopes
Instrument: 
Multi Corer
Instrument Short Name: Multi Corer
Community Standard Description
(http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/51/)
Instrument Description:

The Multi Corer is a benthic coring device used to collect multiple, simultaneous, undisturbed sediment/water samples from the seafloor. Multiple coring tubes with varying sampling capacity depending on tube dimensions are mounted in a frame designed to sample the deep ocean seafloor. For more information, see Barnett et al. (1984) in Oceanologica Acta, 7, pp. 399-408.

PI supplied instrument name: multicorer
Dataset-specific description

Sediment cores were recovered using the following coring equipment:
Ocean Instruments multicorer MC-800 (SP1215) and MC-400 (NH1319)
OSU Gravity Core (6 meters long, 4 inch diameter)
OSU “Big Bertha” Core (12 meters long, 4 inch diameter