We are grateful to D.A. Feary, A.C. Hine, M.J. Malone, and other members of the ODP Leg 182 shipboard scientific party, shipboard technicians, and crew for their onboard cooperation. Thanks are also due to ODP for permitting us to analyze the samples used for this study, Y. Tsuji and E. Shinbo for helping with the isotope measurement at TRC/JNOC, and A. Hasegawa for preparing bryozoan samples for this study. Deep appreciation is expressed to two reviewers (Dr. S.F. Crowley, University of Liverpool, and an anonymous reviewer), M.J. Malone, and D.A. Feary for their critical comments.
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 partially funded by Japan Marine Science and Technology Center and by a Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society of Promotion of Science (to Iryu; 12304028).