Sediment sampling with a core sampler equipped with aluminum tubes and an onboard processing protocol to avoid plastic contamination

Microplastics are abundant even on the deep-sea floor far from land and the ocean surface where human activities take place. To obtain samples of microplastics from the deep-sea floor, a research vessel and suitable sampling equipment, such as a multiple corer, a box corer, or a push corer manipulat...

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Main Authors: Masashi Tsuchiya, Hidetaka Nomaki, Tomo Kitahashi, Ryota Nakajima, Katsunori Fujikura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-01-01
Series:MethodsX
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215016119302924