Site U1467 (proposed Site MAL-9A) is the easternmost site drilled in the Inner Sea of the Maldives during International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 359. It is located at 4°51.0274′N, 73°17.0223′E, at a water depth of 487 m; it lies 24.8 km east of the eastern end of the northern transect and 29.4 km east of the eastern end of the southern transect (Figure F1). Cores from this site record a 630 m thick succession of drift deposits (Figure F2) lining the southern flank of the Kardiva Channel. The main objectives at this site were (1) to constrain the timing of sequence boundaries in the drift succession, (2) to precisely date the onset of drift deposition so that we could analyze the cyclostratigraphy of carbonate drift deposits and reconstruct changes in the current regime and monsoon cyclicity, and (3) to recover an undisturbed sedimentary sequence for further paleoceanographic studies.