@article {ball_joint_2014,
	title = {A joint Monte Carlo analysis of seafloor compliance, Rayleigh wave dispersion and receiver functions at ocean bottom seismic stations offshore New Zealand},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {15},
	number = {12},
	year = {2014},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2014GC005412},
	pages = {5051{\textendash}5068},
	abstract = {Teleseismic body-wave imaging techniques such as receiver function analysis can be notoriously difficult to employ on ocean-bottom seismic data due largely to multiple reverberations within the water and low-velocity sediments. In lieu of suppressing this coherently scattered noise in ocean-bottom receiver functions, these site effects can be modeled in conjunction with shear velocity information from seafloor compliance and surface wave dispersion measurements to discern crustal structure. A novel technique to estimate 1-D crustal shear-velocity profiles from these data using Monte Carlo sampling is presented here. We find that seafloor compliance inversions and P-S conversions observed in the receiver functions provide complimentary constraints on sediment velocity and thickness. Incoherent noise in receiver functions from the MOANA ocean bottom seismic experiment limit the accuracy of the practical analysis at crustal scales, but synthetic recovery tests and comparison with independent unconstrained nonlinear optimization results affirm the utility of this technique in principle.},
	keywords = {Monte Carlo, New Zealand, OBS receiver function, seafloor compliance, sediment shear modes, surface waves},
	issn = {1525-2027},
	doi = {10.1002/2014GC005412},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2014GC005412},
	author = {Ball, Justin S. and Sheehan, Anne F. and Stachnik, Joshua C. and Lin, Fan-Chi and Collins, John A.}
}
@article {collins_pn_2014,
	title = {Pn anisotropy beneath the South Island of New Zealand and implications for distributed deformation in continental lithosphere},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	volume = {119},
	number = {10},
	year = {2014},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2014JB011233},
	pages = {7745{\textendash}7767},
	abstract = {Pn travel times from regional earthquakes recorded both by stations on New Zealand and by ocean bottom seismographs deployed offshore indicate anisotropy in the uppermost mantle beneath the region. The largest anisotropy of 8\% ({\textpm}2\%, 1σ) lies beneath the deforming part of the South Island to just off its West Coast, a zone roughly 100{\textendash}200 km wide. The fastest propagation is aligned N60{\textdegree}E ({\textpm}3{\textdegree}), essentially parallel to the largely strike-slip relative plate motion since 20 Ma, also N60{\textdegree}E. The magnitude of anisotropy decreases abruptly northwest and southeast of this zone, and on the southeast side of the island, the orientation of fastest propagation is between N32{\textdegree}W and N-S. The N60{\textdegree}E orientation of fast propagation is consistent with finite strain within the uppermost part of the mantle lithosphere if the measured 850 km of displacement of the Pacific plate past the Australia plate is spread over a region with a width of 100{\textendash}200 km. The agreement of this orientation of fast propagation with the orientation or relative plate motion suggests the possibility of but does not require some dynamic recrystallization in rock as cold as 500{\textendash}800{\textdegree}C, where Peierls creep seems to be the likely deformation mechanism. Such a strain distribution matches deformation of a thin viscous sheet that obeys a constitutive relationship of the form , where is the average strain rate and τ is the operative deviatoric stress, with an average value of n ≈ 3{\textendash}10. Presumably, the NW-SE fast propagation in the region southeast of the island results from strain that precedes the Cenozoic deformation that has shaped the island.},
	keywords = {anisotropy, Lithosphere, New Zealand, Pn},
	issn = {2169-9356},
	doi = {10.1002/2014JB011233},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2014JB011233},
	author = {Collins, John A. and Molnar, Peter}
}
@article {zietlow_upper_2014,
	title = {Upper mantle seismic anisotropy at a strike-slip boundary: South Island, New Zealand},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	volume = {119},
	number = {2},
	year = {2014},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2013JB010676},
	pages = {1020{\textendash}1040},
	abstract = {New shear wave splitting measurements made from stations onshore and offshore the South Island of New Zealand show a zone of anisotropy 100{\textendash}200 km wide. Measurements in central South Island and up to approximately 100 km offshore from the west coast yield orientations of the fast quasi-shear wave nearly parallel to relative plate motion, with increased obliquity to this orientation observed farther from shore. On the eastern side of the island, fast orientations rotate counterclockwise to become nearly perpendicular to the orientation of relative plate motion approximately 200 km off the east coast. Uniform delay times between the fast and slow quasi-shear waves of nearly 2.0 s onshore continue to stations approximately 100 km off the west coast, after which they decrease to 1 s at 200 km. Stations more than 300 km from the west coast show little to no splitting. East coast stations have delay times around 1 s. Simple strain fields calculated from a thin viscous sheet model (representing distributed lithospheric deformation) with strain rates decreasing exponentially to both the northwest and southeast with e-folding dimensions of 25{\textendash}35 km (approximately 75\% of the deformation within a zone 100{\textendash}140 km wide) match orientations and amounts of observed splitting. A model of deformation localized in the lithosphere and then spreading out in the asthenosphere also yields predictions consistent with observed splitting if, at depths of 100{\textendash}130 km below the lithosphere, typical grain sizes are 6{\textendash}7 mm.},
	keywords = {mantle lithosphere, MOANA, New Zealand, ocean bottom seismometers, seismic anisotropy, South Island},
	issn = {2169-9356},
	doi = {10.1002/2013JB010676},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2013JB010676},
	author = {Zietlow, Daniel W. and Sheehan, Anne F. and Molnar, Peter H. and Savage, Martha K. and Hirth, Greg and Collins, John A. and Hager, Bradford H.}
}
@article {yang_character_2012,
	title = {The character of seafloor ambient noise recorded offshore New Zealand: Results from the MOANA ocean bottom seismic experiment},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {13},
	number = {10},
	year = {2012},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2012GC004201},
	abstract = {{We analyze the characteristics of ambient noise recorded on ocean-bottom seismographs using data from the 2009{\textendash}2010 MOANA (Marine Observations of Anisotropy Near Aotearoa) seismic experiment deployed west and east of South Island, New Zealand. Microseism and infragravity noise peaks are clear on data recorded on the vertical channel of the seismometer and on the pressure sensor. The noise levels in the infragravity band (<0.03 Hz) on the horizontal seismometer channels are too high to show the infragravity peak. There is a small difference (\~{}0.25 Hz versus \~{}0.2 Hz) in microseism peak frequencies between the two sides of the South Island on all three seismic channels. Our results show clear depth dependence between the peak frequency of infragravity waves and the water depth. We find that the product of water depth and wave number at the peak frequency is a constant},
	keywords = {continental shelf, infragravity wave, New Zealand, noise, OBS},
	issn = {1525-2027},
	doi = {10.1029/2012GC004201},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2012GC004201},
	author = {Yang, Zhaohui and Sheehan, Anne F. and Collins, John A. and Laske, Gabi}
}
