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CETA 81-9 



2. GOVT ACCESSION NO 



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4. TITLE (and Subtltre) 



USE OF VIBRATORY CORING SAMPLERS 

 FOR SEDIMENT SURVEYS 



5. TYPE OF REPORT a PERIOD COVERED 



Coastal Engineering 

 Technical Aid 



6. PERFORMING ORG. REPORT NUMBER 



7. AUTHORfsJ 



Edward P. Meisburger 

 S. Jeffress Williams 



8. CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBERC*) 



9. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS 



Department of the Army 



Coastal Engineering Research Center (CEREN-GE) 



Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060 



D31665 



II. CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 



Department of the Army 



Coastal Engineering Research Center 



Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060 



12. REPORT DATE 



July 1981 



13. NUMBER OF PAGES 

 18 



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Sediments 



Vibratory coring samplers 



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The vibratory coring apparatus was developed about 30 years ago by Soviet 

 engineers to increase existing capabilities to penetrate and recover cohesionless 

 soil samples. In 1963, the original Soviet design was used by personnel at 

 Alpine Geophysical Associates, Inc., to fabricate a system to recover 20-foot- 

 long (6 meters) cores for use in CERC's sand inventory program, later known as 

 the Inner Continental Shelf Sediment and Structure (ICONS) program. The core 

 apparatus has since been improved to recover up to AO-foot-long (12 meters) 



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