We thank many of the scientific staff on the JOIDES Resolution for their support of this work. In particular, we are pleased to acknowledge the help of Gregor P. Eberli, Peter K. Swart (co-chief scientists), and Mitchell J. Malone (staff scientist). We would also like to thank Donald F. McNeill and Paul Montgomery for their suggestions and help during sampling and Hirokuni Oda and Hideo Sakai for their helpful suggestions. We thank Abdelaziz L. Abdeldayem for his constructive criticism of the manuscript. We appreciate the reviews, which helped to greatly improve the manuscript.