@article {ma_shear_2020,
	title = {Shear attenuation and anelastic mechanisms in the central Pacific upper mantle},
	journal = {Earth and Planetary Science Letters},
	volume = {536},
	year = {2020},
	month = {04/2020},
	pages = {116148},
	abstract = {We determine the mantle attenuation (1/Qμ) structure beneath 70 Myr seafloors in the central Pacific. We use long-period (33-100 sec) Rayleigh waves recorded by the NoMelt array of broadband ocean-bottom seismometers. After the removal of tilt and compliance noise, we are able to measure Rayleigh wave phase and amplitude for 125 earthquakes. The compliance correction for ocean wave pressure on the seafloor is particularly important for improving signal-to-noise at periods longer than 55 sec. Attenuation and azimuthally anisotropic phase velocity in the study area are determined by approximating the wavefield as the interference of two plane waves. We find that the amplitude decay of Rayleigh waves across the NoMelt array can be adequately explained using a two-layer model: Qμ=1400 in the shallow layer, Qμ=110 in the deeper layer, and a transition depth at 70 km, although the sharpness of the transition is not well resolved by the Rayleigh wave data. Notably, Qμ observed in the NoMelt lithosphere is significantly higher than values in this area from global attenuation models. When compared with lithospheric Qμ measured at higher frequency (\~{}3 Hz), the frequency dependence of attenuation is very slight, revising previous interpretations. The effect of anelasticity on shear velocity (VS) is estimated from the ratio of observed velocity to the predicted anharmonic value. We use laboratory-based parameters to predict attenuation and velocity-dispersion spectra that result from the superposition of a weakly frequency dependent high-temperature background and an absorption peak. We test a large range of frequencies for the position of the absorption peak (fe) and determine, at each depth, which values of fe predict Qμ and VS that can fit the NoMelt Qμ and VS values simultaneously. We show that between depths of 60 and 80 km the seismic models require an increase in fe by at least 3-4 orders of magnitude. Under the assumption that the absorption peak is caused by elastically accommodated grain-boundary sliding, this increase in fe reflects a decrease in grain-boundary viscosity of 3-4 orders of magnitude. A likely explanation is an increase in the water content of the mantle, with the base of the dehydrated lid located at \~{}70-km depth.},
	keywords = {anelastic mechanism, oceanic lithosphere, Pacific Ocean, shear attenuation},
	issn = {0012-821X},
	doi = {10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116148},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X20300911},
	author = {Ma, Zhitu and Dalton, Colleen A. and Russell, Joshua B. and Gaherty, James B. and Hirth, Greg and Forsyth, Donald W.}
}
@article {Russell2019,
	title = {High-Resolution Constraints on Pacific Upper Mantle Petrofabric Inferred From Surface-Wave Anisotropy},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	volume = {124},
	number = {1},
	year = {2019},
	month = {jan},
	pages = {631{\textendash}657},
	issn = {2169-9313},
	doi = {10.1029/2018JB016598},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018JB016598},
	author = {Russell, Joshua B. and Gaherty, James B. and Lin, Pei-Ying Patty and Lizarralde, Daniel and Collins, John A. and Hirth, Greg and Evans, Rob L.}
}
@article {Lin2016,
	title = {High-resolution seismic constraints on flow dynamics in the oceanic asthenosphere},
	journal = {Nature},
	volume = {535},
	number = {7613},
	year = {2016},
	month = {jul},
	pages = {538{\textendash}541},
	issn = {0028-0836},
	doi = {10.1038/nature18012},
	url = {http://www.nature.com/articles/nature18012},
	author = {Lin, Pei-Ying Patty and Gaherty, James B. and Jin, Ge and Collins, John A. and Lizarralde, Daniel and Evans, Rob. L. and Hirth, Greg}
}
@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.}
}
