We thank the ODP staff and crews of the JOIDES Resolution for their help and good company during Leg 207. The weeks of a round-the-clock acquisition of magnetic measurements were only possible through the generosity of Professor Valerian Bachtadse and Manuela Weiss, who allowed us to monopolize the paleomagnetic facilities at the Institute of Geophysics at the University of Munich, Germany, and of Makoto Okada at the paleomagnetic laboratory of the Department of Environmental Sciences of the University of Ibaraki, Japan. The energetic group at the ODP Core Repository at Bremen sent us more than 100 additional minicores and then aided us for a 4-day race to drill-press an additional 300 minicores to improve resolution of magnetic reversal boundaries at the midpoint of our analysis marathon.
This research utilized samples and/or 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. The JOI/U.S. Science Advisory Committee (USSAC) provided advance funding to J. Ogg and a special travel grant to accomplish the postcruise collection and analyses of the minicores in Germany.