Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0607-z, published online 24 October 2018.

In this Article, the middle initial of author Kosei E. Yamaguchi (of the IODP–ICDP Expedition 364 Science Party) was missing and his affiliation is to Toho University (not Tohu University). These errors have been corrected online.