*Damon A H Teagle¹, Michelle Harris², Gretchen Früh-Green³, Eiichi TAKAZAWA⁴, Katsuyoshi Michibayashi⁵, Peter B Kelemen⁶, Oman Drilling Project Science Team¹ (1.Ocean & Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of Southampton, SO14-3ZH, Southampton, UK, 2.School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Plymouth University, UK, 3.Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 4.Geology, Niigata University, Japan, 5.Earth and Planetary Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan, 6.LDEO, Columbia University, New York, USA)

*Peter B Kelemen¹, Juan Carlos de Obeso¹, Craig Manning², Marguerite Godard³, Wolfgang Bach⁴, Merry Yue Cai¹, Saebyul Choe⁵, Judith Coggon⁶, Eric Ellison⁷, Alireza Eslami⁸, Katy Evans⁹, Michelle Harris¹⁰, Wolf-Achim Kahl⁴, Jürg Matter⁶, Katsu Michibayashi¹¹, Keichi Okazaki¹², Philippe Pézard³, Damon A.H. Teagle⁶, Alexis Templeton⁷, OmanDP Oman Drilling Project Science Team (1.LDEO, 2.UCLA, 3.U. Montpellier, 4.U. Bremen, 5.AMNH, 6.U. Southampton, 7.U. Colorado, 8.U. Tehran, 9.Curtin U., 10.U. Plymouth, 11.Nagoya U., 12.JAMSTEC)

*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)

*Toma Takahashi¹, Tomoaki Morishita², Hiroki Sato³, Juan Miguel Guotana², Tatsuhiko Kawamoto⁴, 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.Faculty of Geosciences and Civil Engineering, Kanazawa university, 2.Division of Natural Sciences, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa university, 3.Faculty of Science, Kyoto university, 4.Department of Geoscience, Faculty of Science, Shizuoka university, 5.Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia university, 6.School of Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Center 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)