*Gerald Auer¹, Anna Joy Drury², Beth Ann Christensen³, Or Mordechai Bialik⁴, Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr⁵, David De Vleeschouwer⁶ (1. University of Graz, Department of Earth Science, NAWI Graz Geocenter, Heinrichstrasse 26, 8010 Graz, Austria, 2. University of Leicester, School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, Leicester, UK, 3. Rowan University, Department of Environmental Science, 201 Mullica Hill Road, 08028 Glassboro, NJ, USA, 4. Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, National Institute of Oceanography, Haifa, 310800 Israel, 5. Geological Sciences, Free University of Berlin, Germany, 6. University of Münster, Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Corrensstr 24, 48149, Münster, Germany)

*Troy Rasbury¹, Kathleen Wooton¹, Jamie Kirkpatrick², Chijun Sun³, Junli Zhang⁴, Tsuyoshi Ishikawa⁵, Rebecca Robertson⁶, Miranda Baker⁷, Heather Savage⁷, Sara Satolli⁸, Expedition 405 scientists (1. Stony Brook University, 2. University of Nevada Reno, 3. University of California Davis, 4. MARUM–Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, 5. Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 6. Durham University, 7. University of California Santa Cruz, 8. University of Chieti-Pescara)

*Ryuji Tada¹ (1. Institute for Geo-cosmology, Chiba Institute of Technology)

*YU LIANG^1,2, David B. Kemp³, Zhonghui Liu^4,10, Zerui Ray Liu², Hitoshi Hasegawa⁵, Bailong Liu⁶, Bin Zhang⁷, Yongshu Zhang⁸, Mei-Fu Zhou^9,2 (1. Marine Core Research Institute, Kochi University, 2. State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, School of Earth Resources, China University of Geosciences, 3. State Key Laboratory of Geomicrobiology and Environmental Changes and Hubei Key Laboratory of Critical Zone Evolution, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, 4. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, 5. Faculty of Science and Technology, Kochi University, 6. State Key Laboratory of Continental Shale Oil, China National Petroleum Corporation, 7. Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, China National Petroleum Corporation, 8. Qinghai Oilfield, China National Petroleum Corporation, 9. State Key Laboratory of Laboratory of Critical Mineral Research and Exploration, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 10. Institute for Climate and Carbon Neutrality, The University of Hong Kong)

*Lucien Nana Yobo¹, Jennifer Kasbohm² (1. Texas A&M University College Station, 2. Earth & Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Science)