Instrument: Advanced Piston Corer

Acronym:

APC

External Identifier:

» odo:matches http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/51/

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).

Datasets

Dataset Name	Brief Description
16S rRNA gene from RNA	16S rRNA gene (from RNA)
Anaerobic Sediment 18S rRNA amplicons	Iberian Margin Anaerobic Sediment 18S rRNA amplicons.
Metagenomes - Iberian Margin	Iberian Margin Anaerobic Sediment Metagenomes.
Organic carbon content
Peru Margin iTAGs	Fungal iTAG analyses on Peru Margin sediment core samples
poly-A mRNA	The eukaryotic (poly-A) metatranscriptome for Canterbury Basin
Porewater Nitrate and Isotopic Ratios	Porewater measurements of nitrate concentration and N and O isotopic ratios (d15N and d18O) from bore holes U1382B, U1383D, and U1384A at North Pond during IODP 336.
Proteinaceous material content
South China Sea 16S	16S gene sequencing of microbial communities from South China Sea sediments
Whole community metatranscriptomes	Whole community (3 domain) metatranscriptomes for Peru Margin and Canterbury Basin subsurface sediment core samples

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Instrument: Advanced Piston Corer