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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).