Table 1. Samples and ages used for the construction of Figure 11. The ID's on the left hand side refer to the ID numbers used in Knappertsbusch et al. (1997).
| ID | Sample | Area | Age (Ma) |
| 38 | DSDP 572A-3-4, 80 cm | Equatorial Pacific | 1.6 |
| 36 | DSDP 366A-3-5, 60 cm | Equatorial Atlantic | 1.6 |
| 14 | V16-205, 799 cm | Tropical North Atlantic | 1.7 |
| 20 | ME69-196, 471 cm | North Atlantic | 1.6 |
| 37 | DSDP 251-6-2, 110 cm | Southern Indian Ocean | 1.6 |
| 39 | DSDP 236-3-1, 120 cm | Tropical Indian Ocean | 1.8 |