We wish to acknowledge the cooperative spirit of the shipboard scientific party, technical staff, and crew of Leg 180, which made working on this cruise a special experience. Help from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Borehole Research Group in general, and Florence Einaudi in particular, was determinant in overcoming some of the FMS analysis software perversity. Philippe Gaillot gracefully helped with the integration of core recovery with his odp-plot program. Reviews by Heike Delius and Trevor Williams improved the paper.
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 partially provided by the CNRS-INSU Geoscience Marine program.