Radiocarbon dates were made available through the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE), grants 02/169 and 04/139, and ANSTO-funded Project 0203V—cosmogenic Climate Archives in the Southern Hemisphere. Their support is gratefully acknowledged. We thank Ugo Zoppi and Quan Hua from ANSTO for sample preparation and measurement. We thank the ODP curatorial and core repository staff for supply of samples under request 17852A–D. This research used samples and data supplied by the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP). ODP is sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and participating countries under management of the Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI), Inc.