Francesca Sangiorgi^1,2, Evi Wubben¹, Imogen Mireille Browne³, Amelia Shevenell⁴, Justin P Dodd⁵, Joe Prebble⁶, Osamu Seki⁷, Jeanine Ash⁸, Benjamin Griffin⁹, Oliver Esper¹⁰, David M Harwood¹¹, Peter Bijl¹, Robert M Mckay¹², Laura De Santis¹³, Denise K Kulhanek¹⁴ and IODP Expedition 374 Scientists, (1)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (2)Marine Palynology and Paleoceanography, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University. Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Princetonlaan 8, 3584CB Utrecht, The Netherlands, Utrecht, Netherlands, (3)University of South Florida St. Petersburg, College of Marine Science, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (4)University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States, (5)Northern Illinois University, Geology and Environmental Geosciences, DeKalb, IL, United States, (6)GNS Science, Wellington, New Zealand, (7)Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, (8)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (9)Victoria University, Antarctic Research Centre, Wellington, New Zealand, (10)Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Marine Geology, 27568 Bremerhaven, Germany, (11)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (12)Victoria University of Wgtn, Wellington, New Zealand, (13)Ist Nazionale Oceanografia, Sgonico, Italy, (14)T, International Ocean Discovery Program, College Station, TX, United States