3. Methods

Abstract

In this chapter, we have assembled information that will help the reader understand the observations on which our preliminary conclusions are based and also help the interested investigator select samples for further analysis. This information concerns only shipboard operations and analyses described in the transect reports in the Initial Reports volume of the Leg 168 Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program. The separate sections of the transect chapters were written by the shipboard scientific specialists for each scientific discipline (see ÒParticipants Aboard the JOIDES Resolution for Leg 168Ó at the front of this volume). Because of geologic similarities between closely spaced sites, the results of drilling at each site on Leg 168 were grouped into three transect chapters, rather than individual site chapters. This is described in the ÒIntroduction and SummaryÓ chapter (this volume).