The site survey cruise was funded by the Australian Geological Survey Organization (AGSO), now Geoscience Australia, and the Australian Research Council. We would like to thank for the excellent support of the crew and technical staff on board the Franklin. We also greatly appreciate the hard work of many scientists and technicians at AGSO through all phases of the site survey cruise planning. This research also used samples 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. We thank Mitchell Lyle and Peter Blum for their helpful reviews.