@article {anderson_deformation_2025,
	title = {Deformation on Rainbow Massif, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Illuminated With Microearthquakes Detected by Machine Learning},
	journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
	volume = {52},
	number = {2},
	year = {2025},
	note = {_eprint: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2024GL111285},
	pages = {e2024GL111285},
	abstract = {Abstract Oceanic detachment fault systems are characteristic of slow-spreading mid-ocean ridges, where reduced magma supply leads to increased extension by faulting and exhumation of oceanic core complexes (OCCs). OCCs have complicated structure reflecting the interplay between magmatic, hydrothermal, and tectonic processes. We use microearthquake data from a 9-month ocean bottom seismometer deployment to image deformation structures in the Rainbow massif on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Using a machine-learning enabled workflow to obtain an earthquake catalog containing > {\vphantom} > \textbackslash68,000 events, we find seismicity occurred in distinct clusters that correlate with previously imaged velocity anomalies and dipping subsurface reflections. Our results are consistent with a dipping alteration front within the massif overlying late-stage intrusions and suggest a transpressional fault accommodates a non-transform offset north of the massif. Our results demonstrate OCCs continue to deform in a complex way after a detachment fault has been abandoned due to combined effects of tectonic stresses, magmatism, and alteration.},
	keywords = {detachment faults, machine learning, microearthquakes, oceanic core complex, slow spreading mid-ocean ridges},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL111285},
	author = {Anderson, Evan C. and Parnell-Turner, Ross and Sohn, Robert A. and Fan, Wenyuan}
}
@article {liu_-situ_2023,
	title = {In-Situ Vp/Vs Reveals Fault-Zone Material Variation at the Westernmost Gofar Transform Fault, East Pacific Rise},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	volume = {128},
	number = {3},
	year = {2023},
	note = {_eprint: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2022JB025310},
	month = {03/2023},
	pages = {e2022JB025310},
	abstract = {Ocean transform faults often generate characteristic earthquakes that repeatedly rupture the same fault patches. The westernmost Gofar transform fault quasi-periodically hosts \~{}M6 earthquakes every \~{}5 years, and microseismicity suggests that the fault is segmented into five distinct zones, including a rupture barrier zone that may have modulated the rupture of adjacent M6 earthquakes. However, the relationship between the systematic slip behavior of the Gofar fault and the fault material properties is still poorly known. Specifically, the role of pore fluids in regulating the slip of the Gofar fault is unclear. Here, we use differential travel times between nearby earthquakes to estimate the in-situ Vp/Vs of the fault-zone materials. We apply this technique to the dataset collected by an ocean-bottom-seismometer network deployed around the Gofar fault in 2008, which recorded abundant microearthquakes, and find a moderate Vp/Vs of 1.75{\textendash}1.80 in the rupture barrier zone and a low Vp/Vs of 1.61{\textendash}1.69 in the down-dip edge of the 2008 M6 rupture zone. This lateral variation in Vp/Vs may be caused by both pore fluids and chemical alteration. We also find a 5\%{\textendash}10\% increase in Vp/Vs in the barrier zone during the 9 months before the mainshock. This increase may have been caused by fluid migrations or slip transients in the barrier zone.},
	keywords = {fault-zone structure, ocean-bottom seismometer, oceanic transform fault, pore fluids, slip dilatancy, VP/VS ratio},
	issn = {2169-9356},
	doi = {10.1029/2022JB025310},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2022JB025310},
	author = {Liu, Tianze and Gong, Jianhua and Fan, Wenyuan and Lin, Guoqing}
}
@article {gong_machine_2023,
	title = {Machine Learning-Based New Earthquake Catalog Illuminates On-Fault and Off-Fault Seismicity Patterns at the Discovery Transform Fault, East Pacific Rise},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {24},
	number = {9},
	year = {2023},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2023GC011043},
	pages = {e2023GC011043},
	abstract = {Oceanic transform faults connect spreading centers and are imprinted with previous tectonic events. However, their tectonic interactions are not well understood due to limited observations. The Discovery transform fault system at 4{\textdegree}S, East Pacific Rise (EPR), represents a young transform system, offering a unique opportunity to study the interplay between faulting and other tectonic events at an early phases of an oceanic transform system. Discovery regularly hosts M5{\textendash}6 characteristic earthquakes, and the seafloor north of Discovery includes a 35 km-long rift zone that records a complex history of rifting, faulting and volcanism, suggesting that the transform faults likely interact with regional tectonic activity. We apply a machine-learning enabled workflow to locate 21,391 earthquakes recorded during a 1-year ocean bottom seismometer experiment in 2008. Our results indicate that seismicity on the western Discovery fault is separated into seven patches with distinct aseismic and seismic slip modes. Additionally, we observe a patch of off-fault seismicity near where seafloor abyssal hills intersect the rift zone. This seismicity may have been caused by varying opening rates as spreading rate decreases from north to south in the rift zone. Our findings suggest that the Discovery system is still evolving, and that system equilibrium has not been reached between rifting and faulting. These results reflect the complex yet rarely observed interactions between fault slip, plate rotation, and rifting which are likely ubiquitous at oceanic transform systems.},
	keywords = {fault segmentation, microseismicity, oceanic transform fault, rifting},
	issn = {1525-2027},
	doi = {10.1029/2023GC011043},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2023GC011043},
	author = {Gong, Jianhua and Fan, Wenyuan and Parnell-Turner, Ross}
}
@article {gong_seismicity_2022,
	title = {Seismicity, fault architecture, and slip mode of the westernmost Gofar transform fault},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	year = {2022},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2022JB024918},
	month = {10/2022},
	pages = {e2022JB024918},
	abstract = {Oceanic transform faults accommodate plate motions through both seismic and aseismic slips. However, deformation partition and slip mode interaction at these faults remain elusive mainly limited by rare observations. We use one-year ocean bottom seismometer data collected in 2008 to detect and locate earthquakes at the westernmost Gofar transform fault. The ultra-fast slipping rate of Gofar results in \~{}30,000 earthquakes during the observational period, providing an excellent opportunity to investigate interrelations between the slip mode, seismicity, and fault architecture at an unprecedented resolution. Earthquake distribution indicates that the \~{}100 km long Gofar transform fault is distinctly segmented into five zones, including one zone contouring a M6 earthquake that was captured by the experiment. Further, a barrier zone east of the M6 earthquake hosted abundant foreshocks preceding the M6 event and halted its active seismicity afterwards. The barrier zone has two layers of earthquakes at depth, and they responded to the M6 earthquake differently. Additionally, a zone connecting to the East Pacific Rise had quasi-periodic earthquake swarms. The seismicity segmentation suggests that the Gofar fault has multiple slip modes occurring in adjacent fault patches. Spatiotemporal characteristics of the earthquakes suggest that complex fault architecture and fluid-rock interaction play primary roles in modulating the slip modes at Gofar, possibly involving multiple concurrent physical processes.},
	keywords = {fault slip, fluid-rock interaction, fluid{\textendash}rock interaction, microseismicity, miroseismicity, oceanic transform faults},
	issn = {2169-9356},
	doi = {10.1029/2022JB024918},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2022JB024918},
	author = {Gong, Jianhua and Fan, Wenyuan}
}
