@article {ramsay_anisotropy_2016,
	title = {Anisotropy from SKS splitting across the Pacific-North America plate boundary offshore southern California},
	journal = {Geophysical Journal International},
	volume = {207},
	number = {1},
	year = {2016},
	month = {oct},
	pages = {244{\textendash}258},
	abstract = {SKS arrivals from ocean bottom seismometer (OBS) data from an offshore southern California deployment are analysed for shear wave splitting. The project involved 34 OBSs deployed for 12 months in a region extending up to 500 km west of the coastline into the oceanic Pacific plate. The measurement process consisted of removing the effects of anisotropy using a range of values for splitting fast directions and delay times to minimize energy along the transverse seismometer axis. Computed splitting parameters are unexpectedly similar to onland parameters, exhibiting WSW{\textendash}ENE fast polarization directions and delays between 0.8 and 1.8~s, even for oceanic plate sites. This is the first SKS splitting study to extend across the entire boundary between the North America and Pacific plates, into the oceanic part of the Pacific plate. The splitting results show that the fast direction of anisotropy on the Pacific plate does not align with absolute plate motion (APM), and they extend the trend of anisotropy in southern California an additional 500 km west, well onto the oceanic Pacific plate. We model the finite strain and anisotropy within the asthenosphere associated with density{\textendash}buoyancy driven mantle flow and the effects of APM. In the absence of plate motion effects, such buoyancy driven mantle flow would be NE-directed beneath the Pacific plate observations. The best-fit patterns of mantle flow are inferred from the tomography-based models that show primary influences from foundering higher-density zones associated with the history of subduction beneath North America. The new offshore SKS measurements, when combined with measurements onshore within the plate boundary zone, indicate that dramatic lateral variations in density-driven upper-mantle flow are required from offshore California into the plate boundary zone in California and western Basin and Range.},
	issn = {0956-540X},
	doi = {10.1093/gji/ggw271},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggw271},
	author = {Ramsay, Joseph and Kohler, Monica D. and Davis, Paul M. and Wang, Xinguo and Holt, William and Weeraratne, Dayanthie S.}
}
@article {Lin2015,
	title = {The 11 March 2011 Tohoku tsunami wavefront mapping across offshore Southern California},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	volume = {120},
	number = {5},
	year = {2015},
	month = {may},
	pages = {3350{\textendash}3362},
	issn = {21699313},
	doi = {10.1002/2014JB011524},
	url = {http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/2014JB011524},
	author = {Lin, Fan-Chi and Kohler, Monica D. and Lynett, Patrick and Ayca, Aykut and Weeraratne, Dayanthie S.}
}
@article {takeo_estimation_2014,
	title = {Estimation of azimuthal anisotropy in the NW Pacific from seismic ambient noise in seafloor records},
	journal = {Geophysical Journal International},
	volume = {199},
	number = {1},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {11{\textendash}22},
	abstract = {We analysed background surface waves in seismic ambient noise by cross-correlating continuous records of eight ocean bottom seismometers and nine differential pressure gauges deployed in the northwestern Pacific Ocean by the PLATE project. After estimating the clock delay and instrumental phase responses of differential pressure gauges by using cross-correlation functions, we measured average phase velocities in the area of the array for the fundamental-, first higher- and second higher-mode Rayleigh waves, and the fundamental-mode Love waves at a period range of 3{\textendash}40 s by waveform fitting. We then measured phase-velocity anomalies of fundamental-mode and first higher-mode Rayleigh waves for each pair of stations at a period range of 5{\textendash}25 s, and corrected the effect of variation in water-depths. The seismic anomalies imply the presence of strong azimuthal anisotropy beneath the eastern part of array. The direction of maximum velocity is approximately N35{\textdegree}E in the fossil seafloor spreading direction perpendicular to magnetic lineations from the ancient triple junction at this location. The peak-to-peak intensity of shear-wave velocity anisotropy in the mantle is~\~{}7~per cent.},
	issn = {0956-540X},
	doi = {10.1093/gji/ggu240},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggu240},
	author = {Takeo, Akiko and Forsyth, Donald W. and Weeraratne, Dayanthie S. and Nishida, Kiwamu}
}
@article {shintaku_pn_2014,
	title = {Pn anisotropy in Mesozoic western Pacific lithosphere},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	volume = {119},
	number = {4},
	year = {2014},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2013JB010534},
	pages = {3050{\textendash}3063},
	abstract = {Pn is the high-frequency, scattered P phase guided for great distances within the old oceanic lithosphere. Two arrays of ocean bottom seismometers were deployed on old (150{\textendash}160 Ma) seafloor in the northwestern Pacific south of Shatsky Rise for the Pacific Lithosphere Anisotropy and Thickness Experiment. We use Pn phases from 403 earthquakes during the 1 year of deployment to measure apparent velocities across the arrays. Each array was deployed on a separate limb of a magnetic bight, formed near a fast-spreading, ridge-ridge-ridge triple junction. Using high-frequency waves (5{\textendash}10 Hz), we look at variations of Pn velocities as a function of azimuth. In the western array, we find Pn anisotropy with velocities ranging from 8.7 km/s in the back azimuth (θ) direction of 310{\textdegree} to 7.7 km/s at 350{\textdegree}. In the eastern array, the velocity ranges from 8.5 km/s in back azimuth direction of 210{\textdegree} to 7.7 km/s at 260{\textdegree} and 310{\textdegree}. We observe rapid velocity changes with azimuth in the both arrays requiring sinusoidal variations of roughly equal amplitude as a function of both 2θ and 4θ, which is not expected for the orthorhombic symmetry of olivine or orthopyroxene. The fastest directions on the two limbs are roughly orthogonal to each other suggesting the dominance of fossil anisotropy, but the fast directions of the 2θ components are skewed counterclockwise from the spreading directions. We speculate that the rapid azimuthal variations may be caused by vertical stratification with changing anisotropy with depth in the oceanic lithosphere.},
	keywords = {anisotropy, asthenosphere, mantle, oceanic lithosphere, Pn waves, western Pacific},
	issn = {2169-9356},
	doi = {10.1002/2013JB010534},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2013JB010534},
	author = {Shintaku, Natsumi and Forsyth, Donald W. and Hajewski, Christina J. and Weeraratne, Dayanthie S.}
}
@article {booth_upper_2014,
	title = {Upper mantle Q structure beneath old seafloor in the western Pacific},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	volume = {119},
	number = {4},
	year = {2014},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2013JB010589},
	pages = {3448{\textendash}3461},
	abstract = {The Pacific Lithosphere Anisotropy and Thickness Experiment ocean bottom seismometer array south of the Shatsky Rise allows imaging the attenuation structure of the upper mantle in the oldest parts of the Pacific Ocean. The array consisted of eight seismometers with a lateral extent of 200 km by 600 km. Intermediate- and deep-focus earthquake sources in the Mariana and Izu-Bonin subduction zones provide paths that probe different depths beneath the seafloor. Acceleration spectra from the vertical component of P waves are inverted for the attenuation operator and corner frequency. Pn propagation indicates very high Qp values in the lithosphere, of order 1000, while path-average Qp values in the upper mantle are on the order of 400. The variety of source epicentral distances and depths enables us to deduce the vertical Qp-1 structure of the upper mantle. Using the amplitude spectra directly in a weighted least squares problem that accounts for the effects of triplications in the traveltime curves, we invert for Qp-1 as a function of depth. We demonstrate that Qp is frequency dependent and adopt a power law dependence with coefficient α = 0.27. We resolve three distinct layers using a reference frequency of 1 Hz with Qp on the order of 145 at depths 100{\textendash}250 km, Qp on the order of 350 at depths 250{\textendash}410 km, and very high Qp with attenuation indistinguishable from zero for depths below 410 km. The P waves have a component of scattering, and thus, Qp-1 represents the maximum intrinsic attenuation beneath normal undisturbed oceanic lithosphere.},
	keywords = {attenuation, Pacific, upper mantle},
	issn = {2169-9356},
	doi = {10.1002/2013JB010589},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2013JB010589},
	author = {Booth, Catherine M. and Forsyth, Donald W. and Weeraratne, Dayanthie S.}
}
