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doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.320321.204.2012

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Prof. H. Pälike (University of Southampton) and Prof. H. Nishi (Tohoku University) for their leadership and guidance during and after IODP Expedition 320 and to other scientists and crew members of Expedition 320 for their help and support. Joanne Reuss provided invaluable laboratory assistance in preparing the samples used in this study. This work was financially supported by a contract with the Consortium for Ocean Leadership for the first author and a Grant-in-Aid for Research Fellowships of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists (number 20-1155) to the second author. We thank Annika Sanfilippo for reviewing the manuscript and providing useful comments.