Instrument: Advanced Piston Corer
Dataset:
Instrument:
Instrument Short Name: APC
Instrument 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).
PI supplied instrument name: hydraulic piston coring system (HPCS)
Dataset-specific description