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A new system for logging the geophysical properties of marine sediment cores allows both whole cores and split cores to be measured in a nondestructive fashion. The current sensor configuration measures compressional (P) wave velocity (500 kHz), bulk density (using gamma-ray attenuation), and magnetic susceptibility at user-defined sample intervals down the core. Split-core logging gives more reliable results than whole core logging as it mostly eliminates core-slumping effects that can lead to spurious results; it also gives higher resolution magnetic susceptibility readings.
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Received: 16 May 1997 / Revision received: 24 October 1997
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Gunn, D., Best, A. A new automated nondestructive system for high resolution multi-sensor core logging of open sediment cores. Geo-Marine Letters 18, 70–77 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003670050054
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