Correction to: Earth, Planets and Space (2016) 68:39 DOI 10.1186/s40623-016-0415-3

Following publication of the original article (Oda et al. 2016), the authors asked to add the following sentence, which should have appeared at the beginning of the acknowledgements:

“The authors express sincere thanks to all the members of JARE-54 and BELARE 2012–2013 joint expedition”.