New technology of coring for bottom soft sediments

Quantitative sampling of soft-bottom sediments: problems and solutions

Since the pioneering attempts to obtain quantitative soft-bottom sediment samples at the beginning of this century, many different devices for sampling soft bottoms have been presented. Most techniques, however, yield semi-quantitative samples only. For studies dealing with certain aspects of microlayering, freezing in situ seems to be a good method. In more general studies, quantitative sample...

Soft-bottom decapod and stomatopod crustaceans of Northern Cyprus coast

Soft-bottom decapod and stomatopod crustaceans of Northern Cyprus coast

Dynamics of bottom mine burial in soft sediments: experimental evidence and predictions

The paper presents results of 21 deployments of an instrumented, mine-like cylinder over soft cohesive sediment seafloor at two sites. The focus of this work is the sediment penetration phase. The paper gives a statistical description of the sediment penetration dynamics and compares the observed behavior with predictions from an impact burial software package. It is shown that, due to simplifi...

Coring-related deformation of Leg 208 sediments from Walvis Ridge: Implications for paleomagnetic data

Both shipboard and shore-based magnetic studies of Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 208 sediments produced poor-quality irectional data. A noisy inclination signal and a pervasive declination bias demonstrate that the sediments had been remagnetized nd/or deformed. In an attempt to characterize any deformation, we carried out anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) experments on a suite of ...