1. State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology; Tongji University; Shanghai China
2. Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey; Guangzhou China
3. Department of Geology and Geophysics; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Woods Hole Massachusetts USA
4. South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, CAS; Guangzhou China
5. State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution; Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS; Beijing China
6. International Ocean Discovery Program, Texas A&M University; College Station Texas USA
7. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University; Palisades New York USA
8. Geologisches Institut; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; Zürich Switzerland
9. Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Toulouse; Toulouse France
10. College of Marine Science, University of South Florida; St. Petersburg Florida USA
11. Key Laboratory of Marginal Sea Geology; Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Guangzhou China
12. Department of Geology and Geophysics; Louisiana State University; Baton Rouge Louisiana USA
13. College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences; Oregon State University; Corvallis Oregon USA
14. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences; Macquarie University; Sydney New South Wales Australia
15. Key Laboratory of Submarine Geoscience; Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration; Hangzhou China
16. Institute of Geography/Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern; Bern Switzerland
17. State Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry; Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Guangzhou China
18. Marine Geology and Geophysics Division; Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology; Ansan South Korea
19. Department of Marine Science and Engineering; Faculty of Earth Resources; China University of Geosciences; Wuhan People's Republic of China
20. School of Ocean and Earth Sciences; Tongji University; Shanghai China
21. Department of Physical, Chemical and Geological Oceanography; Universidade de São Paulo; São Paulo-SP Brazil
22. National Institute of Geological Sciences, University of the Philippines; Quezon City Philippines
23. School of Marine Geosciences, China University of Geosciences; Beijing China
24. Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology; Kanagawa Japan
25. Department of Science and Technology; Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment; Hanoi Vietnam
26. Taiwan Ocean Research Institute; Kaohsiung Republic of China
27. Key Laboratory of Marine Geology and Environment; Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Qingdao China