Percent CaCO3 was determined in selected samples aboard the ship by the carbonate-bomb technique (Müller and Gastner, 1971). Results of these analyses are listed in Table 1 and plotted in Figures 1, 3
Total carbon (TC), total organic carbon (TOC), total inorganic carbon (TIC) and total sulfur (TS) from solid-phase discrete samples of the above given hole of International Ocean Discovery Program (IO