Coring is a mainstay of palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and geoarchaeology, it allows us to take a cross-section through time of deposited materials; be they Peat Bogs, Lake Sediments, River Beds or Flood Plains. Each environment represents its own challenges, and we have a variety of corers to deal with them all.
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Russian
Russian coring is a staple of Peat and soft sediment coring. These manual corers are available in a number of diameters, with an extendible reach. |
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Gouge
Gouge coring is used for harder, more densely packed sediments such as clays and heavy soils. Like the Russian, it’s available in multiple diameters and extendible to several meters. |
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Livingstone Piston
Livingstone coring is used primarily for unconsolidated lake sediments. |
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Gravity
Gravity Coring is used for taking cores of loose sediments from the beds of open water such as lakes, slow flowing rivers, and ponds. |
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UWITEC
The UWITEC corer is a more sophisticated version of the Gravity Corer which allows us to take longer cores from a wider variety of water bodies. |
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Tapper
Tapper coring is used to press through consolidated sediments in lakes, ponds and river beds. |
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Stitz
Our petrol powered Stitz corer is used for the hardest, most densely packed sediments such as clays or dry flood plains. |