Sci-Tech Dictionary:

clamshell snapper

(′klam′shel ′snap·ər)

(mechanical engineering) A marine sediment sampler consisting of snapper jaws and a footlike projection which, upon striking the bottom, causes a spring mechanism to close the jaws, thus trapping a sediment sample.


 
 
 

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