1. Department of Geology and Geophysics; University of Hawaiì at Mānoa; 1680 East-West Road, Honolulu Hawaii 96822 USA
2. Ocean Research Institute; University of Tokyo; 1-15-1, Minamidai, Nakano-ku, Tokyo 164-8639 Japan
3. Ocean Drilling Program; Texas A&M University; College Station Texas 77845-9547 USA
4. Hawaiì Insitute of Geophysics and Planetology; University of Hawaiì at Mānoa; Honolulu Hawaiì 96822 USA
5. FB 5 Geowissenschaften; Universität Bremen; Bremen 28334 Germany
6. Department of Earth Sciences; University of Bristol; Bristol BS8 1RJ United Kingdom
7. Department of Geology; Western Washington University; Bellingham Washington 98225 USA
8. School of Geosciences; University of Wollongong; Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia
9. Département de Géologie; École Normale Supérieure; 24 rue Lhomond, Paris Cedex 05 75231 France
10. Japan Marine Science and Technology Center; 2-15 Natsushimacho, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 237-0061 Japan
11. Ocean Research Institute; University of Tokyo; 1-15-1, Minamidai, Nakano-ku, Tokyo 164 Japan
12. Geowissenschaftliche Gemeinschaftsaufgaben; Stilleweg 2, Hannover 30631 Federal Republic of Germany
13. Geoscience Research Division; Scripps Institution of Oceanography; La Jolla California 92093-0212 USA
14. Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences; University of Wales, Aberystwyth; Aberystwyth SY23 3DB United Kingdom
15. Department of Geology and Geophysics; Rice University; Houston Texas 77005-1892 USA
16. Graduate School of Biosphere Sciences; Hiroshima University; 1-4-4 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8528 Japan
17. Department of Geology and Geophysics; University of Wyoming; Laramie Wyoming 82071 USA
18. Departamento de Geología; Universidad de Jaén; Jaén 23071 Spain
19. Department of Geology; University of Florida; Gainesville Florida 32611 USA
20. Graduate School of Oceanography; University of Rhode Island; Narragansett Rhode Island 02882-1197 USA
21. Department of Geological Sciences; University of Missouri, Columbia; Columbia Missouri 65211 USA
22. Department of Earth and Environmental Science; New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; 801 Leroy Place, Socorro New Mexico 87801 USA
23. National Science Museum; 3-23-1 Hyakunin-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-0073 Japan
24. Department of Geological Sciences; University of Durham; Durham DH1 4EL United Kingdom