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. Funding for this research was provided by the NSF (EAR97-24282, OCE98-18713) for acquisition of the shore-based ICP-AES facilities at Boston University, where these protocols were initially developed for ODP.
We thank the Co-Chief Scientists of Leg 199, Mitch Lyle and Paul Wilson, for their strong support and interest in bulk-sediment analyses by ICP-AES. Their enthusiasm for this project was vital to its completion. RWM acknowledges GRD for The Words. We thank Peggy Delaney and Mitch Lyle for very many helpful comments on the manuscript.