An Improved Motorized Corer and Sample Processing System for Frozen Peat

ABSTRACT. An improved corer and associated equipment for obtaining continuous samples of frozen peat are described. We developed the system through laboratory and field trials—on Bathurst Island, Nunavut, Canada in 2000 and Nordvestø, Carey Islands, Greenland, in 2001—as part of efforts to collect c...

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Main Authors: Tommy Nørnberg, Michael E. Goodsite, William Shotyk
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2003
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.542.6092
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic57-3-242.pdf