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Acknowledgments

Expedition 337 and its shipboard research activities, which included a part of the platform operational costs as well as the development of sampling and analytical facilities on the D/V Chikyu such as mud-gas monitoring and radioisotope laboratories, were supported by the Strategic Fund for Strengthening Leading-Edge Research and Development (to JAMSTEC, PI: Fumio Inagaki) and the Funding Program for Next Generation World-Leading Researchers (NEXT Program, to Fumio Inagaki) by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT), Japan.