A 215.5-mcd thick (181.3 mbsf) Pleistocene to Holocene hemipelagic sequence was recovered at Site 1235. Calcareous nannofossils indicate a basal age < 0.26 (Zone NN21; see "Biostratigraphy"). The entire record is of normal polarity and within the Bruhnes Chron (1n; see "Paleomagnetism"). A conservative estimate of the average sedimentation rate is therefore ~696 m/m.y. A detailed age-depth model was not created shipboard, as datums are not abundant enough at this site of extremely high sedimentation rates.