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Title: Design and operation of an advanced hydraulic piston corer. Technical report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6013280

The Deep Sea Drilling Project Technical Report documents the history, incentives, development and testing of the Advanced Piston Corer (APC) - the third generation in the wireline retrievable, piston coring technology in DSDP. Description and operational guidelines of the latest design iteration, APC Mod. II, are included. Operational sea trials of the Mod. I version are summarized. Appendices are included with related reports, design calculations and machine drawings.

Research Organization:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA (USA). Deep Sea Drilling Project
OSTI ID:
6013280
Report Number(s):
PB-85-112324/XAB; TR-21
Resource Relation:
Other Information: See also PB85-112308. Portions of this document are not fully legible
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English