ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful to the Ocean Drilling Program for inviting us to participate on Leg 165, to all members of the Shipboard Scientific Party of Leg 165 for their cooperation aboard the ship, and to the ODP personnel and the SEDCO crew who made Leg 165 a success. We especially thank Timothy J. Bralower, Veronique Louvel, and Bruno Galbrun for discussions and free data exchange. U.R acknowledges the financial support of the German Research Foundation (DFG), L.J.A. that of JOI-USSAC. We thank Aad Vaars, Bob Koster, and Sjerry Van der Gaast (Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, The Netherlands) for introducing us to the secrets of the XRF Core Scanner. We also thank the Borehole Research Group, LDEO, for postcruise data processing, and P. Pezard and V. Louvel for their assistance with FMS-SFLU calibration at the Laboratoire de Mesures en Forage, Marseille, France. Valuable reviews and critiques were provided by Espen Sletten Andersen, Timothy J. Bralower, and Julie A. Hood.

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