A new hammer-driven freeze corer

被引:6
作者
Miskimmin, BM [1 ]
Curtis, PJ [1 ]
Schindler, DW [1 ]
Lafaut, N [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV ALBERTA,DEPT SCI BIOL,EDMONTON,AB T6G 2E9,CANADA
关键词
freeze coring system; sediments; mountain lakes; corers; paleolimnology;
D O I
10.1007/BF00213045
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
A shortcoming of freeze corers has been the inability to collect long cores in stiff sediments. We describe a hammer-driven freeze corer that collects undisturbed sediment cores up to 1.3 m in length in stiff or soft lake sediments. The corer was tested in prairie, montane and alpine lakes of western Canada. For these stiff sediments, conventional (gravity-only) freeze coring methods collected cores ranging from 25-59 cm compared with 100-124 cm for our hammer-driven device. The maximum length of cores could exceed 1.3 m if a longer core barrel was constructed.
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页码:265 / 269
页数:5
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