ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We would like to thank the crew and staff of the JOIDES Resolution and all scientific participants for their support during Leg 205. 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. Funding for this research was provided by a grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, Vi 133/4-3).

We especially want to thank A. Bartetzko at the Research Center for Ocean Margins (RCOM; University of Bremen, Germany) for FMS processing support and G. Guerin (LDEO-BRG) for their patient help with waveform data formats and processing questions.

The manuscript was greatly improved by two thorough anonymous reviewers.

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