*Susumu Umino¹, Tomoaki Morishita¹, Jun-Ichi Kimura², Mikiya Yamashita³, Michael Garcia⁴, Frieder Klein⁵, Nobukazu Seama⁶, Shigeaki Ono², Natsue Abe², Katsuyoshi Michibayashi⁷, Masako Tominaga⁵ (1. Kanazawa Univ., 2. JAMSTEC, 3. AIST, 4. Univ. Hawaii, 5. WHOI, 6. KURCIS, 7. Nagoya Univ.)

*Norikatsu Akizawa¹, Kyoko Okino¹, Osamu Ishizuka², Hiroyuki Yamashita³, Shiki Machida⁴, Ohara Yasuhiko^5,6 (1. AORI, The Univ. Tokyo, 2. GSJ, 3. Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, 4. Chiba Institute of Technology, 5. Japan Coadt Guard, 6. JAMSTEC)

*Ikuo Katayama¹, Natsue Abe², Kohei Hatakeyama¹, Yuya Akamatsu¹, Keishi Okazaki², Ole Ivar Ulven⁴, Gilbert Hong⁵, Wenlu Zhu⁶, Benoit Cordonnier⁴, Katsuyoshi Michibayashi³, Marguerite Godard⁷, Peter Kelemen⁸, The Oman Drilling Project Phase 2 Science Party The Oman Drilling Project Phase 2 Science Party (1. Hiroshima University, 2. JAMSTEC, 3. Nagoya University, 4. University of Oslo, 5. Seoul National University, 6. University of Maryland, 7. Universitè Montpellier, 8. Columbia University)

*Ilona Sakaguchi¹, Yui Kouketsu¹, Katsuyoshi Michibayashi¹, Simon Wallis² (1. Nagoya University, GSES , 2. The University of Tokyo, EPS)

*Shuhei Totuka¹, Jun-ichiro Ishibashi¹, Kazuhiko Shimada¹, Takashi Miyamoto¹, Kei Ikehata² (1. Kyushu Univ. Sci., 2. Fac. of Life and Environ. Sci., Univ. of Tsukuba)

*Takahiko Ogawara¹, Yosuke Ibaraki¹, Ko Takenouchi¹, Hiromi Konishi² (1. Fossa Magna Museum, 2. Niigata Univ., Sci.)

*Takuya Echigo¹, Ayaka Kawahara¹, Yasushi Watanabe¹ (1. Akita Univ. Internat. Resour. Sci.)