Instrument: Piston Corer

Acronym: Piston Corer
External Identifier: skos:broadMatch: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/51/

Description

The piston corer is a type of bottom sediment sampling device. A long, heavy tube is plunged into the seafloor to extract samples of mud sediment. A piston corer uses a "free fall" of the coring rig to achieve a greater initial force on impact than gravity coring. A sliding piston inside the core barrel reduces inside wall friction with the sediment and helps to evacuate displaced water from the top of the corer. A piston corer is capable of extracting core samples up to 90 feet in length.

Dataset NamePI-Supplied DescriptionPI-Supplied Name
16S rRNA gene (from DNA) from samples collected on cruise Chikyu-331 in the Okinawa Trough, Japan from September to October 2010hydraulic piston coring system (HPCS)
Inorganic sediment chemistry from piston cores from R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruise TT013 in the Equatorial Pacific in 1992 during the U.S. JGOFS Equatorial Pacific (EqPac) projectPiston Corer
Inorganic Sediment Chemistry data from R/V Thomas G. Thompson U.S. JGOFS cruise in the Equatorial Pacific (EqPac project)Piston Corer
Isotopes (d11B, 87Sr/86Sr, d18O, d13C), elemental concentrations (B, Mg, Ca), and carbon content collected from the foraminifera Ammonia parkinsoniana and sediments in Celestun Lagoon, Yucatan, Mexico in June 2009 and May 2015
Measured and calculated geochemistry values and uncertainty for water samples taken from the water column of Celestun Lagoon, Yucatan, Mexico in May of 2015Piston, Bolivia, Livingstone corers: coring devices used to collect sediments.
Metagenomic data from samples collected on cruise Chikyu-331 in the Okinawa Trough, Japan from September to October 2010hydraulic piston coring system (HPCS)
Organic carbon, d13C, and total nitrogen content of pelagic sediment from the North Atlantic gyre, South Pacific gyre, and Peru Basin from cruises KN223, KNOX02RR, and ODP leg 201 between 2002 and 2013
Core Logger Physical Properties for Palau Lakes Sediment Cores collected from small boats from September to October 2013Colinvaux‐Vohnout Livingstone‐type rod‐operated piston corer (Geocore, Columbus, Ohio): Hand-operated sediment coring device. Colinvaux‐Vohnout Livingstone‐type rod‐operated piston corer
Porewater measurements of nitrate and nitrite concentration and N and O isotopic ratios (d15N and d18O) collected from sites 3 and 10 on the North Atlantic Long Core Cruise R/V Knorr KN223 from October to December 2014R/V Knorr long coring system
Protein assay of proteinaceous material in pelagic sediment from the North Atlantic gyre, South Pacific gyre, and Peru Basin from cruises KN223, KNOX02RR, and ODP leg 201 between 2002 and 2013
Radiocarbon [14C] ages of sedimentary organic matter and sedimentation rates for Guaymas Basin and Sonora Margin sediments collected from R/V El Puma, leaving Guaymas on October 14, 2014 and returning to Mazatlan on October 27, 2014
North Atlantic subseafloor sediment viable microbe numbers/metabolisms from cruise KN223 on R/V Knorr in the North and West Atlantic Ocean in November 2014 The sediment subsamples were collected from long piston cores or shorter gravity cores. long piston core
3H-leucine and thymidine incorporation of North Atlantic subseafloor sediments from cruise KN223 on R/V Knorr in the North and West Atlantic Ocean in November 2014The sediment subsamples were collected from long piston cores or shorter gravity cores. long piston core
C14 dates from sediment cores from RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer NBP-98-2 cruises in the Southern Ocean in 1998 (U.S. JGOFS AESOPS project)Piston Corer
Sediment composition from cores from R/V Thomas G. Thompson TT041, TT047 cruises in the Arabian Sea in 1995 (U.S. JGOFS Arabian Sea project)Piston Corer
Radionuclides from sediment cores from RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer NBP-98-2 cruises in the Southern Ocean in 1998 (U.S. JGOFS AESOPS project)Piston Corer
d13C and d18O isotopic data for carbonate nodules and sedimentary carbonates in Guaymas Basin and Sonora Margin sediments collected from R/V El Puma, leaving Guaymas on October 14, 2014 and returning to Mazatlan on October 27, 2014
Microbial cell counts in sediment cores collected during R/V Knorr cruise KN195-03 in the Pacific Ocean in 2009 (Subseafloor Microbial Life project)Piston Corer (Long Core)
Record of abundance and δ2H of dinosterol in down core lake sediments from T Lake, Palau collected in September 2013Colinvaux‐Vohnout Livingstone‐type rod‐operated piston corer (Geocore, Columbus, Ohio). Hand-operated sediment coring device. Colinvaux‐Vohnout Livingstone‐type rod‐operated piston corer
14C dates from core PC1 collected from T Lake, Palau in September 2013Colinvaux‐Vohnout Livingstone‐type rod‐operated piston corer (Geocore, Columbus, Ohio). Hand-operated sediment coring device. Colinvaux‐Vohnout Livingstone‐type rod‐operated piston corer
Presence/absence of taxa detected with the Phylochip in a sediment core collected in the Ulleng Basin in 2011Sediment cores were collected using a Furor Hydraulic Piston Corer following the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) guidelines for obtaining high quality microbiology cores. Furor Hydraulic Piston Corer
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