“…Titanium oxide vs. phosphate, vanadium, scandium, and strontium. Shown for comparison are data for Indian Ocean MORB from the Geochemical Rock Database (georoc.mpch-mainz.gwdg.de), the seamounts in the SCS (Tu et al, 1992;Hékinian et al, 1989), OIB of Hainan Island (Wang et al, 2012), and Pacific MORB (Zhang et al, 2009(Zhang et al, , 2012a(Zhang et al, , 2012b will be compared to those measurements made on the core samples to determine if there are microbes that can be recognized as contaminant taxa. Variations in the natural remanent magnetization (NRM) intensity at Site U1431 generally correlate with lithology.…”