*Tatsuhiko Kawamoto¹, Hiroki Sato², Toma Takahashi³, Juan Miguel Guotana⁴, Tomoaki Morishita⁴, Peter B Kelemen⁵, Jude Ann Coggon⁶, Michelle Harris⁷, Juerg Michael Matter⁶, Katsuyoshi Michibayashi⁸, Eiichi TAKAZAWA⁹, Damon A H Teagle⁶, The Oman Drilling Project Phase 1 Science Party (1.Department of Geoscience, Faculty of Science, Shizuoka University, 2.Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, 3.Faculty of Geosciences and Civil Engineering, Kanazawa University, 4.Division of Natural Sciences, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, 5.Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, 6.School of Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of Southampton, 7.School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Plymouth University, 8.Department of Earth Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, 9.Institute of Science and Technology, Niigata University)