We would like to thank Maria Coray for assistance with the mass spectrometer and Cédric John for helpful comments on a previous version of the manuscript. I am grateful to the Leg 205 Shipboard Party for their assistance and to the Co-Chief Scientists, who offered me as a Student Trainee the opportunity to work as a sedimentologist on board the JOIDES Resolution and thus to realize the study presented here.
This research used samples and 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. This research was supported by ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Fund (SNF).