1964 9 603/1 A modification of a box corer, 20 cm by 20 cm and 1.5 m long..is being used in this study.
2015 A. Jamieson 55 Sediment grabs were superseded in the 1970s by spade corers, now commonly known as 'box corers' and these became the standardised method of quantitative sediment sampling in the deep sea.