We thank our colleagues on Leg 210 and the crew of the JOIDES Resolution for helpful advice and skillful operations. William Mills, Johanna Suhonen, and Patrick Riley are particularly thanked for helping operate the CT scanner and analysis software XVIEW on board the JOIDES Resolution. We also thank Dr. Barry M. Freifeld for his lecture on operating the portable CT scanner on the JOIDES Resolution and Dr. O. Tadai for his help operating the medical CT scanner at the CMCR, Koch University. Our manuscript was improved by Lorri Peters and anonymous reviewers.
This research used samples and data provided by the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP). ODP is sponsored by U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and participating countries under management of Joint Oceanographic Institution (JOI), Inc.