@article {li_along-strike_2024,
	title = {Along-Strike Variations of Alaska Subduction Zone Structure and Hydration Determined From Amphibious Seismic Data},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	volume = {129},
	number = {3},
	year = {2024},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2023JB027800},
	pages = {e2023JB027800},
	abstract = {We develop a 3-D isotropic shear velocity model for the Alaska subduction zone using data from seafloor and land-based seismographs to investigate along-strike variations in structure. By applying ambient noise and teleseismic Helmholtz tomography, we derive Rayleigh wave group and phase velocity dispersion maps, then invert them for shear velocity structure using a Bayesian Monte Carlo algorithm. For land-based stations, we perform a joint inversion of receiver functions and dispersion curves. The forearc crust is relatively thick (35{\textendash}42 km) and has reduced lower crustal velocities beneath the Kodiak and Semidi segments, which may promote higher seismic coupling. Bristol Bay Basin crust is relatively thin and has a high-velocity lower layer, suggesting a dense mafic lower crust emplaced by the rifting processes. The incoming plate shows low uppermost mantle velocities, indicating serpentinization. This hydration is more pronounced in the Shumagin segment, with greater velocity reduction extending to 18 {\textpm} 3 km depth, compared to the Semidi segment, showing smaller reductions extending to 14 {\textpm} 3 km depth. Our estimates of percent serpentinization from VS reduction and VP/VS are larger than those determined using VP reduction in prior studies, likely due to water in cracks affecting VS more than VP. Revised estimates of serpentinization show that more water subducts than previous studies, and that twice as much mantle water is subducted in the Shumagin segment compared to the Semidi segment. Together with estimates from other subduction zones, the results indicate a wide variation in subducted mantle water between different subduction segments.},
	keywords = {Alaska subduction zone, along-strike variation, forearc crustal thickness, incoming plate hydration, seismic tomography},
	issn = {2169-9356},
	doi = {10.1029/2023JB027800},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2023JB027800},
	author = {Li, Zongshan and Wiens, Douglas A. and Shen, Weisen and Shillington, Donna J.}
}
@article {mark_constraints_2023,
	title = {Constraints on Bend-Faulting and Mantle Hydration at the Marianas Trench From Seismic Anisotropy},
	journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
	volume = {50},
	number = {10},
	year = {2023},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2023GL103331},
	month = {05/2023},
	pages = {e2023GL103331},
	abstract = {Subduction zones are a key link between the surface water cycle and the solid Earth, as the incoming plate carries pore water and hydrous minerals into the subsurface. However, water fluxes from surface to subsurface reservoirs over geologic time are highly uncertain because the volume of water carried in hydrous minerals in the slab mantle is poorly constrained. Estimates of slab mantle hydration based on seismic tomography assume bulk serpentinization, representing an upper bound on water volume. We measure azimuthal seismic anisotropy near the Marianas Trench, use spatial variations in anisotropy to constrain the extent and geometry of bend-related faulting, and place a lower bound on slab mantle water content for the case where serpentinization is confined within fault zones. The seismic observations can be explained by a minimum of \~{}0.85 wt\% water in the slab mantle, compared to the upper bound of \~{}2 wt\% obtained from tomography.},
	keywords = {anisotropy, Marianas Trench, serpentinization, solid-Earth water cycle, subduction},
	issn = {1944-8007},
	doi = {10.1029/2023GL103331},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2023GL103331},
	author = {Mark, Hannah F. and Lizarralde, Daniel and Wiens, Douglas A.}
}
@article {zhu_upper_2021,
	title = {Upper Mantle Hydration Indicated by Decreased Shear Velocity Near the Southern Mariana Trench From Rayleigh Wave Tomography},
	journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
	volume = {48},
	number = {15},
	year = {2021},
	note = {_eprint: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2021GL093309},
	month = {07/2021},
	pages = {e2021GL093309},
	abstract = {Reduction of seismic velocities has been employed to study the hydration of incoming plates and forearc mantle in recent years. However, few constraints have been obtained in the Southern Mariana Trench. We use an ocean bottom seismograph (OBS) deployment to conduct Rayleigh wave tomographic studies to derive the SV-wave velocity structure near the Southern Mariana Trench. Measured group and phase velocities as a function of period are inverted to determine the SV-wave velocity using a Bayesian Monte Carlo algorithm. The incoming Pacific Plate is characterized by low velocities (3.6{\textendash}4.1 km/s) within the upper \~{}25 km of the mantle near the trench, indicating extensive mantle hydration of the incoming plate in southern Mariana. The velocity reduction in the forearc mantle is not as large as in central Mariana, most likely indicating a lower forearc serpentinization in this region, which is consistent with the absence of serpentinite mud volcanoes.},
	issn = {1944-8007},
	doi = {10.1029/2021GL093309},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2021GL093309},
	author = {Zhu, Gaohua and Wiens, Douglas A. and Yang, Hongfeng and Lin, Jian and Xu, Min and You, Qingyu}
}
@article {barcheck_alaska_2020,
	title = {The Alaska Amphibious Community Seismic Experiment},
	journal = {Seismological Research Letters},
	volume = {91},
	number = {6},
	year = {2020},
	month = {08/2020},
	pages = {3054{\textendash}3063},
	abstract = {The Alaska Amphibious Community Seismic Experiment (AACSE) is a shoreline-crossing passive- and active-source seismic experiment that took place from May 2018 through August 2019 along an \~{}700  km long section of the Aleutian subduction zone spanning Kodiak Island and the Alaska Peninsula. The experiment featured 105 broadband seismometers; 30 were deployed onshore, and 75 were deployed offshore in Ocean Bottom Seismometer (OBS) packages. Additional strong-motion instruments were also deployed at six onshore seismic sites. Offshore OBS stretched from the outer rise across the trench to the shelf. OBSs in shallow water (\&lt;262  m depth) were deployed with a trawl-resistant shield, and deeper OBSs were unshielded. Additionally, a number of OBS-mounted strong-motion instruments, differential and absolute pressure gauges, hydrophones, and temperature and salinity sensors were deployed. OBSs were deployed on two cruises of the R/V Sikuliaq in May and July 2018 and retrieved on two cruises aboard the R/V Sikuliaq and R/V Langseth in August{\textendash}September 2019. A complementary 398-instrument nodal seismometer array was deployed on Kodiak Island for four weeks in May{\textendash}June 2019, and an active-source seismic survey on the R/V Langseth was arranged in June 2019 to shoot into the AACSE broadband network and the nodes. Additional underway data from cruises include seafloor bathymetry and sub-bottom profiles, with extra data collected near the rupture zone of the 2018 Mw~7.9 offshore-Kodiak earthquake. The AACSE network was deployed simultaneously with the EarthScope Transportable Array (TA) in Alaska, effectively densifying and extending the TA offshore in the region of the Alaska Peninsula. AACSE is a community experiment, and all data were made available publicly as soon as feasible in appropriate repositories.},
	issn = {0895-0695},
	doi = {10.1785/0220200189},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1785/0220200189},
	author = {Barcheck, Grace and Abers, Geoffrey A. and Adams, Aubreya N. and B{\'e}cel, Anne and Collins, John and Gaherty, James B. and Haeussler, Peter J. and Li, Zongshan and Moore, Ginevra and Onyango, Evans and Roland, Emily and Sampson, Daniel E. and Schwartz, Susan Y. and Sheehan, Anne F. and Shillington, Donna J. and Shore, Patrick J. and Webb, Spahr and Wiens, Douglas A. and Worthington, Lindsay L.}
}
@article {wei_high_2020,
	title = {High Bulk and Shear Attenuation Due to Partial Melt in the Tonga-Lau Back-arc Mantle},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	volume = {125},
	number = {1},
	year = {2020},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2019JB017527},
	pages = {e2019JB017527},
	abstract = {Seismic attenuation measures energy loss during seismic wave propagation and quantifies the relaxation of rocks{\textquoteright} elastic moduli. Abundant seismic studies have observed shear attenuation, but few have quantified bulk attenuation (bulk modulus relaxation), and these studies controversially locate finite bulk attenuation in different parts of the Earth, from the asthenosphere to the inner core. Here we present conclusive evidence localizing bulk attenuation to a specific region of the uppermost mantle. By analyzing amplitude spectral decay of P and S waves from Tonga earthquakes recorded at local seismic stations, we observe unusually low QP/QS ratios (<1.5) in the Tonga-Lau mantle wedge. All seismic raypaths with significant path-average bulk attenuation (Qκ-1 > 0.01 or Qκ < 100) are confined to the region immediately beneath the Lau back-arc spreading centers west of the Tonga Arc. Tomography results show that the highest bulk attenuation (Qκ-1 = 0.037 {\textpm} 0.008 or Qκ = 27.0 {\textpm} 0.2) is about 75\% of the in situ shear attenuation. The observed high bulk attenuation anomalies coincide with an inferred zone of partial melting, suggesting that the causative mechanism involves either infinitesimal movement of melt through pores or changes in melt fraction in response to seismic waves.},
	keywords = {bulk attenuation, Lau back-arc basin, mantle partial melting, QP/QS ratio, Tonga subduction zone},
	issn = {2169-9356},
	doi = {10.1029/2019JB017527},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019JB017527},
	author = {Wei, S. Shawn and Wiens, Douglas A.}
}
@article {eimer_seismicity_2020,
	title = {Seismicity of the Incoming Plate and Forearc Near the Mariana Trench Recorded by Ocean Bottom Seismographs},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {21},
	number = {4},
	year = {2020},
	note = {_eprint: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2020GC008953},
	month = {04/2020},
	pages = {e2020GC008953},
	abstract = {Earthquakes near oceanic trenches are important for studying incoming plate bending and updip thrust zone seismogenesis, yet are poorly constrained using seismographs on land. We use an ocean bottom seismograph (OBS) deployment spanning both the incoming Pacific Plate and the forearc to study seismicity near the Mariana Trench. The yearlong deployment in 2012{\textendash}2013 consisted of 20 broadband OBSs and 5 suspended hydrophones, with an additional 59 short period OBSs and hydrophones recording for 1 month. We locate 1,692 earthquakes using a nonlinear method with a 3D velocity model constructed from active source profiles and surface wave tomography results. Events occurring seaward of the trench occur to depths of 35 km below the seafloor, and focal mechanisms of the larger events indicate normal faulting corresponding to plate bending. Significant seismicity emerges about 70 km seaward from the trench, and the seismicity rate increases continuously towards the trench, indicating that the largest bending deformation occurs near the trench axis. These plate-bending earthquakes occur along faults that facilitate the hydration of the subducting plate, and the lateral and depth distribution of earthquakes is consistent with low-velocity regions imaged in previous studies. The forearc is marked by a heterogeneous distribution of low magnitude (<5 Mw) thrust zone seismicity, possibly due to the rough incoming plate topography and/or serpentinization of the forearc. A sequence of thrust earthquakes occurs at depths 10 km below seafloor and within 20 km of the trench axis, demonstrating that the megathrust is seismically active nearly to the trench.},
	issn = {1525-2027},
	doi = {10.1029/2020GC008953},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020GC008953},
	author = {Eimer, Melody and Wiens, Douglas A. and Cai, Chen and Lizarralde, Daniel and Jasperson, Hope}
}
@article {Wei2018,
	title = {P-wave attenuation structure of the Lau back-arc basin and implications for mantle wedge processes},
	journal = {Earth and Planetary Science Letters},
	volume = {502},
	year = {2018},
	month = {nov},
	pages = {187{\textendash}199},
	issn = {0012821X},
	doi = {10.1016/j.epsl.2018.09.005},
	url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0012821X18305363},
	author = {Wei, S. Shawn and Wiens, Douglas A.}
}
@article {Cai2018,
	title = {Water input into the Mariana subduction zone estimated from ocean-bottom seismic data},
	journal = {Nature},
	volume = {563},
	number = {7731},
	year = {2018},
	month = {nov},
	pages = {389{\textendash}392},
	issn = {0028-0836},
	doi = {10.1038/s41586-018-0655-4},
	url = {http://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0655-4},
	author = {Cai, Chen and Wiens, Douglas A. and Shen, Weisen and Eimer, Melody}
}
@article {Wei2017,
	title = {Slab temperature controls on the Tonga double seismic zone and slab mantle dehydration},
	journal = {Science Advances},
	volume = {3},
	number = {1},
	year = {2017},
	month = {jan},
	pages = {e1601755},
	issn = {2375-2548},
	doi = {10.1126/sciadv.1601755},
	url = {https://advances.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1601755},
	author = {Wei, S. Shawn and Wiens, Douglas A. and van Keken, Peter E. and Cai, Chen}
}
@article {Wei2016,
	title = {Upper mantle structure of the Tonga-Lau-Fiji region from Rayleigh wave tomography},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {17},
	number = {11},
	year = {2016},
	month = {nov},
	pages = {4705{\textendash}4724},
	issn = {15252027},
	doi = {10.1002/2016GC006656},
	url = {http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/2016GC006656},
	author = {Wei, S. Shawn and Zha, Yang and Shen, Weisen and Wiens, Douglas A. and Conder, James A. and Webb, Spahr C.}
}
@article {Barklage2015,
	title = {P and S velocity tomography of the Mariana subduction system from a combined land-sea seismic deployment},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {16},
	number = {3},
	year = {2015},
	month = {mar},
	pages = {681{\textendash}704},
	issn = {15252027},
	doi = {10.1002/2014GC005627},
	url = {http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/2014GC005627},
	author = {Barklage, Mitchell and Wiens, Douglas A. and Conder, James A. and Pozgay, Sara and Shiobara, Hajime and Sugioka, Hiroko}
}
@article {Wei2015,
	title = {Seismic evidence of effects of water on melt transport in the Lau back-arc mantle},
	journal = {Nature},
	volume = {518},
	number = {7539},
	year = {2015},
	month = {feb},
	pages = {395{\textendash}398},
	issn = {0028-0836},
	doi = {10.1038/nature14113},
	url = {http://www.nature.com/articles/nature14113},
	author = {Wei, S. Shawn and Wiens, Douglas A. and Zha, Yang and Plank, Terry and Webb, Spahr C. and Blackman, Donna K. and Dunn, Robert A. and Conder, James A.}
}
