ODP Prime Scientific Data: Collection, Archive, and Quality^{1, 2}

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ACRONYM LIST

The acronyms used in this Technical Note are defined as follows:

A/D analog-to-digital

AF alternating field

AMST archive multisensor track

APC advanced piston coring

APCT advanced piston coring temperature tool

ARL Applied Research Laboratories

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

AVS automated vane shear

DSDP Deep Sea Drilling Project

DSV digital signal velocimeter

DVTP Davis-Villinger Temperature Probe

FID flame ionization detector

GC gas chromatography

GRA gamma ray attenuation

GRAPE gamma ray attenuation porosity evaluator

HI hydrogen index

HP Hewlett-Packard

HS headspace gas

HVC hue, value, and chroma

IAPSO International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Ocean

ICP-AES inductively coupled plasma–atomic emission spectroscopy

IODP Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

IRM isothermal remanent magnetization

IW interstitial water

MAD moisture and density

MDCB motor-driven core barrel

MSL multisensor logger

MST multisensor track

NGA natural gas analyzer

NGR natural gamma radiation

NRM natural remanent magnetization

ODP Ocean Drilling Program

OG organic geochemistry

OI oxygen index

PARM partial anhysteretic remanent magnetizer

PCS pressure coring system

PI production index

PMAG paleomagnetism

PWL P-wave logger

PWS P-wave sensor

RCB rotary core barrel

RE rock evaluation

RSC reflectance spectrophotography and colorimetry

SCE spectral component excluded

TAMU Texas A&M University

TCD thermal conductivity detector

TCON thermal conductivity

TOC total organic carbon

VAC Vacutainer gas

VCD visual core description

WSTP water-sampling temperature probe

XCB extended core barrel

XRD X-ray diffraction

XRF X-ray fluorescence

¹ODP Information Technology and Data Services, 2007. ODP prime scientific data: collection, archive, and quality. ODP Tech. Note, 37 [Online]. Available from World Wide Web: <http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/tnotes/tn37/INDEX.HTM>. [Cited YYYY-MM-DD]

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