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doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.303306.209.2009

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Toshitsugu Yamazaki at the Geological Survey of Japan, Kazuto Kodama at Kochi University, and Koji Fukuma at Doshisya University for access to their facilities. We thank Joseph Stoner at Oregon State University and Atsuhito Ennyu at Itochu Oil Exploration for valuable comments that helped to improve our manuscript. This research used samples and/or data provided by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP). Funding for this research was partially provided to N. Kawamura by the Fukada Geological Institute (Grant-in-Aid Program for Young Researchers Grant Number 15), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Scientific Research C Grant Number 19612002), and Paleo Lab (Grant-in-Aid Program for Young Researchers). Travel fund was provided to N. Kawamura by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) to participate in Expedition 303 in March–May 2004 and the second postcruise meeting in May 2007. A part of this study was performed under the cooperative research program of the Center for Advanced Marine Core Research, Kochi University (Numbers 05A003, 05B007).