About the Authors

Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen

D.J.J.vanHinsbergen@uu.nl

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Lennart V. de Groot

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Sebastiaan J. van Schaik

Affiliation University of Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom

Wim Spakman

Affiliations Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Center of Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Peter K. Bijl

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Appy Sluijs

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Cor G. Langereis

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Henk Brinkhuis

Affiliations Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Den Burg, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DJJvH LVdG WS PB. Performed the experiments: DJJvH LVdG SvS WS PB CGL. Analyzed the data: DJJvH LVdG PB AS HB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SvS WS CGL. Wrote the paper: DJJvH LVdG SvS WS PB AS CGL HB.