Peter B Kelemen, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Greg Hirth, Brown Univeristy, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, Wenlu Zhu, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Craig E Manning, Univ California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Janos L Urai, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany and Oman Drilling Project Science Team