1. Leg 185 Synthesis: Sampling the Oldest Crust in the Ocean Basins to Understand Earth's Geodynamic and Geochemical Fluxes

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

A LEGACY SITE IN JURASSIC CRUST

SEDIMENTATION HISTORY OF THE WESTERN PACIFIC

GEOCHEMICAL SINKS AND RECYCLING AT SUBDUCTION ZONES

Site 801: A Geochemical Reference Site for Global Budgets and the Aging of Oceanic Crust

Site 1149: A Geochemical Reference Site for Sediment Recycling at the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Margin

THE DEEP BIOSPHERE

CONCLUSIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

REFERENCES

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