Henry J Dick, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Christopher J MacLeod, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Andrew McCaig¹, Donna K Blackman², Beth Orcutt³, Benedicte Menez⁴, Marvin D Lilley⁵, Charles Geoffrey Wheat⁶, Johan C J Lissenberg⁷, Benoit Ildefonse⁸, Frieder Klein⁹, Susan Q. Lang¹⁰, William E Seyfried Jr¹¹, Muriel Andreani¹², Barbara E John¹³, Marguerite Godard¹⁴, Antony Morris¹⁵, Esther Schwarzenbach¹⁶, Christopher J MacLeod⁷, Ivan P Savov¹, Natsue Abe¹⁷, Yasuhiko Ohara¹⁸ and IODP co-proponents, proposal 937, (1)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (2)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States, (4)University Denis Diderot Paris VII, Paris Cedex 13, France, (5)University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, (6)NURP/ Univ Alaska, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (7)Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, (8)Géosciences Montpellier, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, Univ Antilles, Montpellier, France, (9)Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., Woods Hole, MA, United States, (10)University of South Carolina, School of the Earth, Ocean, and Environment, Columbia, SC, United States, (11)Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (12)University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France, (13)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (14)Géosciences Montpellier, CNRS, Univ. Montpellier, Montpellier, France, (15)Plymouth University, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (16)Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Geological Sciences, Berlin, Germany, (17)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Mantle Drilling Promotion Office MarE3, Kanagawa, Japan, (18)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan

Natsue Abe, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Mantle Drilling Promotion Office MarE3, Kanagawa, Japan

Isabel Sauermilch, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Taroona, TAS, Australia, Anders John McCarthy, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Howie Scher, University of South Carolina, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Columbia, United States and Andreas Klocker, University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Tasmania, TAS, Australia

Yasuhiko Ohara, Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department of Japan, Tokyo, Japan; Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technoloty, Yokosuka, Japan, Katsuyoshi Michibayashi, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, Jonathan E Snow, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, Henry J Dick, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Yumiko Harigane, Geological Survey of Japan, Tsukuba, Japan and Alessio Sanfilippo, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Tomoaki Morishita¹, Gou Fujie², Shigeaki Ono³, Takanori Kagoshima⁴, Jason Phipps Morgan⁵, Marianne Conin⁶, Akira Ijiri⁷, Benoit Ildefonse⁸, Tsuyoshi Ishikawa⁹, Ikuo Katayama¹⁰, Peter B Kelemen¹¹, Junichiro Kuroda³, Yohey Suzuki¹², Damon A H Teagle¹³, Alexis S Templeton¹⁴, Tomohiro Toki¹⁵, Kohtaro Ujiie¹⁶, Asuka Yamaguchi¹⁷ and Makoto Yamano¹⁸, (1)Kanazawa University, Course in Earth and Planetary Science, Kanazawa, Japan, (2)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama, Japan, (3)JAMSTEC, Yokosuka, Japan, (4)Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, (5)Royal Holloway, Runnymede, United Kingdom, (6)Laboratoire GeoRessources (UMR 7359, Université de Lorraine, CNRS, CREGU), Nancy, France, (7)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Kanagawa, Japan, (8)Géosciences Montpellier, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, Univ Antilles, Montpellier, France, (9)JAMSTEC, Nankoku, Kochi, Japan, (10)Hiroshima Univ, Hiroshima, Japan, (11)Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (12)University of Tokyo, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Tokyo, Japan, (13)University of Southampton, School of Ocean & Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (14)University of Colorado at Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (15)Univ. of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan, (16)University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, (17)University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, (18)University of Tokyo, Earthquake Research Institute, Bunkyo-ku, Japan

Masataka Kinoshita¹, Rie Nakata¹ and Yoshitaka Hashimoto², (1)Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (2)Kochi University, Kochi, Japan

Fumiaki Mori¹, Ann G Dunlea², Tomohisa Irino³, Takeshi Terada⁴, Richard Murray⁵, Ryuji Tada⁶ and Yuki Morono¹, (1)JAMSTEC, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Kochi, Japan, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Hokkaido University, Faculty of Environmental Earth Science,, Sapporo, Japan, (4)Marine Works Japan LTD, Yokosuka, Japan, (5)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (6)The University of Tokyo, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo, Japan

Katerina E Petronotis, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, Brandon Dugan, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, Lisa Clare McNeill, University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom and IODP Expedition 362 Science Team

Clive Robert Neal, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Sean P S Gulick, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geociences, Austin, TX, United States and Mitchell D Schulte, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States