| Collection Methods |
|---|
| Blasting |
| Camera SledCamera tow |
| Coring |
| Coring>BoxCorer |
| Coring>CameraMounted |
| Coring>DrillCorer |
| Coring>FreeFallCorer |
| Coring>GravityCorer |
| Coring>GravityCorer>Giant |
| Coring>GravityCorer>Pilot |
| Coring>HandHeldCorer |
| Coring>KastenlotCorer |
| Coring>MultiCorer |
| Coring>PistonCorer |
| Coring>PistonCorer>Giant |
| Coring>RockCorer |
| Coring>SideSaddleCorer |
| Coring>SubmersibleMountedCorer |
| Coring>TriggerWeightCorer |
| Coring>VibratingCorer |
| Dredging |
| Dredging>Chain Bag |
| Dredging>ChainBagDredge |
| Experimental Apparatus |
| Grab |
| Grab>HOV |
| Grab>ROV |
| Manual |
| Manual>Hammer |
| Probe |
| Sediment trap |
| Suspended sediment |
| Unknown |
| Platform and Launch Types |
|---|
| AUV |
| Ship |
| HOV |
| ROV |
| Small craft |
| Submersible / HOV |
| Physiographic Feature |
|---|
| abyssal feature |
| alluvial fan |
| anticline |
| aquifer |
| arch (natural formation) |
| arroyo |
| badlands |
| bank (hydrographic) |
| bar (physiographic) |
| basin |
| bay |
| beach |
| bight |
| canyon |
| cape |
| cave |
| channel |
| cirque |
| cliff |
| continental divide |
| continental margin |
| crater |
| delta |
| drainage basin |
| drumlin |
| dune |
| earthquake feature |
| estuary |
| fault |
| fault zone |
| flat |
| floodplain |
| fold (geologic) |
| fracture zone |
| gap |
| gulf |
| gut |
| hydrothermal vent |
| ice mass |
| isthmus |
| karst area |
| lake |
| lava field |
| ledge |
| massif |
| mesa |
| mineral deposit area |
| moraine |
| mountain |
| mountain range |
| mountain summit |
| ocean trench |
| outcrop |
| plain |
| plateau |
| playa |
| reef |
| ridge |
| rift zone |
| roadcut |
| sea |
| seamount |
| stream |
| submarine canyon |
| syncline |
| thermal feature |
| valley |
| volcano |
| Navigation Type |
|---|
| ACOUSTIC_RANGING/GPS |
| DGPS |
| DVL |
| DVL:Renav |
| DVL:Renav:Confirmed |
| DVL/LBL |
| DVL/LBL:Renav |
| DVL/LBL:Renav:Confirmed |
| DVL/LBL/INS |
| DVL/USBL |
| DVL/USBL:Renav |
| GLONASS |
| GPS |
| GPS:Assumed |
| GPS/WireOut |
| LAYBACK |
| LAYBACK/LBL |
| LBL |
| Locale |
| LORAN |
| NotApplicable |
| NotProvided |
| RTK GPS |
| USBL |
| Classification (Bilogy) |
|---|
| Macrobiology |
| Macrobiology>Coral |
| Microbiology |
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Bead | Individual Sample | Bead pressed from a powder. |
| Chemical Fraction | Individual Sample | Parts of a parent sample separated chemically. |
| Cube | Individual Sample | Equidimensional prism of material. |
| Culture | Individual Sample | Biological material cultured in geological material. |
| Cylinder | Individual Sample | Cylinders of material. |
| Gas | Individual Sample | A gaseous material. |
| Liquid | Individual Sample | A liquid material. |
| Mechanical Fraction | Individual Sample | Parts of a parent sample separated mechanically. |
| Powder : Fine | Individual Sample | Fine : grained (<62 micron), dry, granular material. |
| Slab | Individual Sample | Rectangular prism of material where one dimension is significantly shorter than the others. |
| Smear | Individual Sample | A toothpick sample suspended in liquid and fixed on slide. |
| Specimen | Individual Sample | Material of any shape or form selected for specific characteristics of interest. |
| Squeeze Cake | Individual Sample | Solid fraction remaining after forced expulsion of interstitial fluids from a source sample; typically has the shape of a cylindrical disc. |
| Thin Section | Individual Sample | A sub-millimeter thick slice of material mounted on a glass slide. |
| Toothpick | Individual Sample | Minute amount of material taken for observation. |
| Wedge | Individual Sample | Sample form factor named for the tool used to extract it. Typically 5-20 ml in volume. |
| Thin Section | Experimental Specimen | |
| Other | Experimental Specimen |
| Material |
|---|
| Biology |
| Gas |
| Ice |
| Liquid>aqueous |
| Liquid>organic |
| Mineral |
| NotApplicable |
| Organic Material |
| Other |
| Particulate |
| Plant Structure |
| Rock |
| Sediment |
| Soil |
| Synthetic |
| Tephra |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Core | long cylindrical cores |
| Core Catcher | material recovered from the core catcher of a sedimentary core and which is treated as a separate section from the core. |
| Core Half Round | half-cylindrical products of along-axis split of a whole round. |
| Core Piece | material occurring between unambiguous [as curated] breaks in recovery. |
| Core Quarter Round | quarter-cylindrical products of along-axis split of a half round. |
| Core Section | arbitrarily cut segments of a “core”. |
| Core Section Half | half-cylindrical products of along-axis split of a section or its component fragments through a selected diameter. |
| Core Slab | rectangular prism of material taken from a core where one dimension is significantly shorter than the others. |
| Core Sub-Piece | unambiguously mated portion of a larger piece noted for curatorial management of the material. |
| Core U-Channel | long rectangular prism of material for continuous measurement. |
| Core Whole Round | cylindrical segments of core or core section material. |
| CTD | a CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth) cast sample. |
| Cuttings | loose, coarse, unconsolidated material suspended in drilling fluid. |
| Dredge | a group of rocks collected by dragging a dredge along the seafloor. |
| Experimental Specimen | a synthetic material used during an experiment. |
| Grab | a sample (sometimes mechanically collected) from a deposit or area, not intended to be representative of the deposit or area. |
| Hole | hole cavity and walls surrounding that cavity. |
| Individual Sample | a sample that is an individual unit, including rock hand samples, a biological specimen, or a bottle of fluid. |
| Oriented Core | core that can be positioned on the surface in the same way that it was arranged in the borehole before extraction. |
| Other | a sample that does not fit any of the existing type designations. It is expected that further detailed description of the particular sample will be provided. |
| Rock Powder | a sample created from pulverizing a rock to powder. |
| Site | a place where a sample is collected. |
| Terrestrial Section | a sample of a section of the near-surface Earth, generally in the critical zone. |