This publication was prepared by the Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, as an account of work performed under the international Ocean Drilling Program, which is managed by Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc., under contract with the National Science Foundation. Funding for the program was provided by the following agencies at the time of this cruise:
Australia/Canada/Chinese Taipei/Korea Consortium for Ocean Drilling: Department of Primary Industries and Energy (Australia), Natural Resources Canada, National Taiwan University in Taipei, and Korean Institute for Geology, Mining and Minerals
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Federal Republic of Germany)
European Science Foundation Consortium for Ocean Drilling (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland)
Institut National des Sciences de l’Univers–Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INSU-CNRS) (France)
Marine High-Technology Bureau of the State Science and Technology Commission of the People’s Republic of China
National Science Foundation (United States)
Natural Environment Research Council (United Kingdom)
University of Tokyo, Ocean Research Institute (Japan)
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation, the participating agencies, Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc., Texas A&M University, or Texas A&M Research Foundation.
Abbreviations for names of organizations and publications in ODP reference lists follow the style given in Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index (published by American Chemical Society).
The bulk of the shipboard-collected data from this leg is available on the World Wide Web and is accessible at www-odp.tamu.edu/database. If you cannot access this site or need additional data, please contact the ODP Data Librarian, Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, College Station TX 77845-9547, USA. E-mail: database@odpemail.tamu.edu.
Supplemental data were provided by the authors and may not conform to ODP publication formats.
Cover photograph is a space shuttle photograph of the Hawaiian Island chain from Kauai (lower right) to the Big Island of Hawaii (upper left). This chain and its extension in a series of seamounts in the northwest Pacific form the basis of many of our ideas about geodynamics. Leg 197 tested whether the hotspot source currently under the Big Island was drifting in the mantle during the formation of volcanic edifices 81–43 m.y. ago (the Emperor Seamounts). Image courtesy of Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. Photo taken during Mission STS026 (Roll 43, Frame 82) and can be found at eol.jsc.nasa.gov.