Figure F2. Distance between downcore locations of chert layers and those samples from Site 1218 with anomalously high Corg concentrations. The lack of an inverse trend suggests that our samples were not contaminated by drilling muds when drilling passed through the chert-bearing layers.

Figure F2. Distance between downcore locations of chert layers and those samples from Site 1218 with anomalously high C_org concentrations. The lack of an inverse trend suggests that our samples were not contaminated by drilling muds when drilling passed through the chert-bearing layers.