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A New Bottom-Sampler

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

N. A. Holme
N. A. Holme
Affiliation:
Zoologist at the Plymouth Laboratory
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Extract

A bottom-sampler is described for use under open-sea conditions, particularly where the bottom is of sand or coarser material.

It takes a sample of 1/20m.2 area of semicircular cross-section and maximum depth 15 cm. There is probably little loss of material while hauling and no danger of the apparatus losing soil through being wedged open by shell fragments, etc. The instrument weighs over 45 kg. and is weighted to n o kg. in use.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , October 1949 , pp. 323 - 332
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1949

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