Facilities, Resources and Equipment
Field Equipment: Geopulse 3.5 kHz subbottom profiler (Pinger) mounted on a NRS cataraft; Gravity corer with hammer action; Earth resistivity system for multielectrode tomography (Lippmann 4point light 10W)
Lab Analytics: Geotek Multi-Sensor Core Logger (MSCL-S) with sensors for magnetic susceptibility, P-Wave velocity and γ-densit; Smartcube Camera Image Scanner for split sediment cores or whole-round rock cores (360° scan); Malvern Mastersizer 2000 with three different samplers (wet, dry and small samples) for grain-size analysis using laser diffraction; Fall cone and vane shear testing device (Wille Geotechnik) for obtaining undrained shear strength on sediment cores; Cold storage room for sediment cores.
Software: IHS Kingdom Suite 2015 (seismic stratigraphy and core-to-seismic integration); CODA GeoSurvey and Survey Engine: seismic acquisition and processing; ESRI ArcGIS: GIS platform; RES2DINVx64: 2-D Resistivity & IP inversion