*Tomohisa Irino¹, Mui Fa Alison Lee², Ryuji Tada³ (1.Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, 2.Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, 3.Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo)

*Stephen Obrochta¹, Andrén Thomas², Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas³, Bryan Lougheed⁴, Ian Snowball⁴, Yusuke Yokoyama⁵, Miyairi Yosuke⁵, Reisuke Kondo⁶, Aarno Kotilainen⁷, Outi Hyttinen⁸, Annick Fehr⁹ (1.Akita University, 2.Södertörn University, 3.Akita U., 4.Uppsala University, 5.Tokyo University, 6.Kogakkan University, 7.Geological Survey of Finland, 8.University of Helsinki, 9.Aachen University)

*Lallan Prasad Gupta¹, Toshio Hisamitsu¹, Toshikuni Yabuki¹, Ryo Yamaoka¹, Nan Xiao¹, Naokazu Ahagon¹, Tsuyoshi Ishikawa¹ (1.Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology )

*Yasuhiro Yamada¹, Saneatsu Saito¹, Hsiung Kan-Hsi¹, Andrew Tien-Shun LIN², Char-Shine LIU³ (1.Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), R&D Center for Ocean Drilling Science (ODS), 2.Dept of Earth Sciences/Institute of Geophysics, National Central University, Taiwan, 3.Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

*Francisco J Jimenez-Espejo¹, Masako Yamane², Kaoru Kubota³, Ian R Hall⁴, Sidney R Hemming⁵, Leah J LeVay⁶, IODP Expedition 318 Scientists (1.Depart. Biogeochemistry, JAMSTEC, Japan, 2. Atmosphere and Ocean Research Inst., Univ. of Tokyo, Japan , 3.Kochi Inst. for Core Sample Res., JAMSTEC, Japan, 4.School of Earth and Ocean Sci., Cardiff Univ., UK, 5.Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs., Columbia Univ., USA , 6.International Ocean Discovery Program, Texas A&M, USA)

*Minoru Ikehara¹, Mikiya Yamashita², Yusuke Okazaki³ (1.Center for Advanced Marine Core Research, Kochi University, 2.Research and Development Center for Earthquake and Tsunami, JAMSTEC, 3.Kyushu University)