The authors would like to thank the many people whose efforts contributed to this report. The entire shipboard scientific and technical staff worked vigilantly to collect all the cores and gather an amazing amount of data while at sea. The Department of Geology and the Antarctic Core Facility at Florida State University provided lab and working space for D. Winter. Paula Wiess, at the ODP Core Repository, generously shared working space as well.
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 a USSAC grant.