We thank the Ocean Drilling Program, crew members, technical staff, the captain of the JOIDES Resolution, the co-chiefs, and other scientists who made this venture possible. Thanks to our spouses and children for letting us go and for spending their time to improve this paper. Special thanks to Christian Bücker and Trevor Williams for their constructive insight in final reviewing and improving this manuscript. We also thank Dr. Warner Brückmann, Daniel A. Hepp, Jayne Welling-Wolf, and Ortrud Runze for early reviews, linguistical help and technical support in preparing this report. 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. This research was supported by "SPP DSDP/ODP" Grant TH 200/37-1 and 2 of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.