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The new sediment slicer described herein provides an easy and time-efficient way of sectioning cores of varying length, diameter, and composition from a wide range of habitats and sediment types. It is designed to process sediments collected by means of any soft-sediment core sampler with the core tube detachable from the sampler head and trigger unit. It is useful for sectioning core samples that include both the undisturbed sediment/water interface and highly consolidated sediments. The slicer is composed of three parts: (1) a supporting block, (2) a gliding block with the incorporated 10 cm sub-sampler holder designed to glide freely in the grooves along the supporting block, and (3) a metal blade for sediment slicing.
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The work was partly supported by the State Committee for Scientific Research, project No. P06S00127. My thanks are due to Małgosia Kornijów for English corrections to the paper, to Leszek Błędzki for valuable comments on the first draft of the manuscript, and to Elizabeth Gross for inviting me to Limnological Institute, University of Konstanz, where the prototype of the sampler was produced.
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Kornijów, R. A new sediment slicer for rapid sectioning of the uppermost sediment cores from marine and freshwater habitats. J Paleolimnol 49, 301–304 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-012-9655-9
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