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A wide variety of scientific disciplines require representative samples of benthic sediment. As a result, a large range of sampling devices have been developed, each best suited to a particular set of conditions. However, all sediment sampling devices have inherent design problems that affect the degree to which samples represent the intact sediment. These issues are summarised, and a new corer design (the LOG corer) is presented and discussed. The LOG corer is a remotely-operated light-weight gravity corer suitable for obtaining relatively undisturbed short sediment cores in soft lacustrine sediments.
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Lane, C.M., Taffs, K.H. The LOG corer – a new device for obtaining short cores in soft lacustrine sediments. Journal of Paleolimnology 27, 145–150 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013547028068
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