J.P. would like to acknowledge the receipt of a UK ODP Rapid Response Award and NERC Small Grant GR8/04238, and we thank Franco Ricci Lucchi and Angelo Camerlenghi for their constructive comments, which improved the manuscript. J.P. also would like to thank the participants of the Palmer Deep sampling party at the Bremen ODP Core Repository for helping to compile the detailed correlation between the three holes of ODP Site 1098, shown in Table T1, Bob Jones (Southampton Oceanography Centre) for making the polished thin sections, and Jason Hilton for the use of his digital camera.
This research used samples and/or data provided by the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP). ODP is sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and participating countries under management of Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI), Inc. Funding for this research was provided by the Natural Environment Research Council and the UK Ocean Drilling Program.