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 postcruise research grant to EDC from JOI/USSP. This is SOEST contribution No. 5572.
We wish to acknowledge the Captain and crew of the JOIDES Resolution and the ODP technical staff for a very successful cruise. We are particularly indebted to shipboard chemistry technicians Chieh Peng and Dennis Graham for their able assistance. C.M. Fraley and P. Carlton provided technical assistance at SOEST. P. Anschutz provided a review of this report.