*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)

*Atsushi Okamoto¹, Kazuki Yosida¹, Ryosuke Oyanagi², Oman Drilling Project Phase 2 Science Party³ (1.Graduate School of Environmental Studies, 2.JAMSTEC, 3.Oman Drillng Project Phase 2 Science Party)

*Sayantani Chatterjee¹, Eiichi TAKAZAWA¹, Katsuyoshi Michibayashi², Peter B Kelemen³, Damon A.H. Teagle⁴, Oman Drilling Project Phase I Science Party (1.Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, Niigata University, Japan, 2.Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan, 3.Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, USA, 4.Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute, University of Southampton, United Kingdom)

*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)

*Eiichi TAKAZAWA¹, Damon A H Teagle², Katsuyoshi Michibayashi³, Yoshihiko Tamura⁴, Jude Ann Coggon², Juerg Matter², Peter B Kelemen⁵, Oman Drilling Project Phase 2 Science Party (1.Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Niigata University, 2.University of Southampton, 3.Nagoya University, 4.JAMSTEC, 5.Columbia University)

*Kakihata Yuki¹, Katsuyoshi Michibayashi², Laura Crispini³, Bjorn Jamtveit⁴, Samuel Barbier⁵, Joe Aslin⁶, Manuel Menzel⁷, Marguerite Godard⁸ (1.Graduate School of Science, Shizuoka University, 2.Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, 3.University of Genova, 4.University of Oslo, 5.Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, 6.University of Liverpool, 7.Andalusian Earth Science Institute, 8.Géosciences Montpellier, CNRS, Univ. Montpellier)

*Natsue Abe^1,12, Keishi Okazaki¹, Ikuo Katayama², Kohei Hatakeyama², Yuya Akamatsu², Benoit Ildefonse³, Ulven Ivar Ole⁴, Gilvert Hong⁵, Wenlu Zhu⁶, Benoit Cordonnier⁴, Katsuyoshi Michibayashi⁷, Eiichi TAKAZAWA⁸, Michell Harris¹⁰, Damon Teagle¹¹, Peter Kelemen⁹, Marguerite Godard³, Jurg Matter¹¹, Jude Coggon¹¹, Oman Drilling Project Scientific Party (1.Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 2.Hiroshima University, 3.Universitè de Montpellier, 4.University of Oslo, 5.Seoul National University, 6.University of Maryland, 7.Nagoya University, 8.Niigata University, 9.Columbia University, 10.Polymouth University, 11.University of Southampton, 12.Kanazawa University)

*Kohei Hatakeyama¹, Ikuo Katayama¹, Natsue Abe², The Oman Drilling Project Phase II Science Party (1.Department of earth and planetary systems science, Hiroshima University , 2.JAMSTEC)

*Koki Iida¹, Takahiro Fudai¹, Susumu Umino¹, Yuki Kusano² (1.Kanazawa University, 2.Geological Survey of Japan)