We would like to thank the Captains and crews of the JOIDES Resolution on ODP Legs 125, 126, and 195 for their assistance in making this work possible. Also we wish to thank the scientific shipboard participants on these legs for their dedication, enthusiasm, and scientific expertise, for without them this work would not have been possible. This manuscript has benefited from the very helpful reviews and suggested improvements by B. Bekins and J. Ryan. We thank Nathan C. Becker for assistance in generating the bathymetry maps.
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 work was supported in part by grants from NSF OCE-0002584 and OCE-9907063 and from ODP Leg 195 postcruise science support from JOI/U.S. Science Support Panel (USSSP). This is School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) contribution #6758 and Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) contribution #1434.