@article {lee_anomalous_2025,
	title = {Anomalous Sediment Consolidation and Alteration From Buried Incoming Plate Seamounts Along the Cascadia Margin},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {26},
	number = {2},
	year = {2025},
	note = {_eprint: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2024GC011949},
	pages = {e2024GC011949},
	abstract = {Abstract Oceanic plate seamounts are believed to play an important role in megathrust rupture at subduction zones, although consistent relationships between subducting seamounts and plate interface seismicity patterns are not found. While most studies focus on impacts linked to their topography, seamounts are also sites of heterogeneity in incoming plate sediments that may contribute to megathrust properties. Here, we characterize incoming plate sediments along the Cascadia subduction zone using new high-resolution seismic images and compressional wave (Vp) models from the CASIE21 multi-channel-seismic experiment. Nine fully-to-partially buried seamounts are identified seaward of the deformation front within a region of thick Plio-Pleistocene sediment where the Juan de Fuca plate is bending into the subduction zone. Anomalously high Vp sediment blankets two seamounts offshore Washington-Central Oregon, with wavespeeds reaching 36\% and 20\% higher than adjacent sediment. Fluid seepage and temperatures warm enough for smectite diagenesis extending to shallow depths are inferred from heat flow studies and we attribute Vp anomalies to sediment cementation linked primarily to smectite dehydration. Signatures of fluid seepage above seamounts are also identified offshore Vancouver Island, but anomalously low Vp sediment below distinct reverse polarity reflections are found, indicating trapped fluids, and cooler basement temperatures are inferred. Landward of one seamount, a zone of enhanced sediment compaction is found, consistent with the predicted stress modulating effects of seamount subduction. These new findings of variations in sediment diagenesis and strength around seamounts prior to subduction may contribute to the diverse megathrust frictional properties and seismicity patterns evident at subducting seamounts.},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GC011949},
	author = {Lee, Michelle K. and Carbotte, Suzanne M. and Han, Shuoshuo and Shuck, Brandon and Gurun, Pinar and Boston, Brian and Nedimovic, Mladen and Tobin, Harold and Norvell, Ben and Spinelli, Glenn}
}
@article {carbotte_subducting_2024,
	title = {Subducting plate structure and megathrust morphology from deep seismic imaging linked to earthquake rupture segmentation at Cascadia},
	journal = {Science Advances},
	volume = {10},
	number = {23},
	year = {2024},
	note = {_eprint: https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.adl3198},
	pages = {eadl3198},
	abstract = {The origin of rupture segmentation along subduction zone megathrusts and linkages to the structural evolution of the subduction zone are poorly understood. Here, regional-scale seismic imaging of the Cascadia margin is used to characterize the megathrust spanning 900 km from Vancouver Island to the California border, across the seismogenic zone to a few tens of kilometers from the coast. Discrete domains in lower plate geometry and sediment underthrusting are identified, not evident in prior regional plate models, which align with changes in lithology and structure of the upper plate and interpreted paleo-rupture patches. Strike-slip faults in the lower plate associated with oblique subduction mark boundaries between regions of distinct lower plate geometry. Their formation may be linked to changes in upper plate structure across long-lived upper plate faults. The Juan de Fuca plate is fragmenting within the seismogenic zone at Cascadia as the young plate bends beneath the heterogeneous upper plate resulting in structural domains that coincide with paleo-rupture segmentation. A fragmented lower plate in the Cascadia seismogenic zone bounds structural domains linked to paleo-rupture segmentation.},
	doi = {10.1126/sciadv.adl3198},
	author = {Carbotte, Suzanne M. and Boston, Brian and Han, Shuoshuo and Shuck, Brandon and Beeson, Jeffrey and Canales, J. Pablo and Tobin, Harold and Miller, Nathan and Nedimovic, Mladen and Tr{\'e}hu, Anne and Lee, Michelle and Lucas, Madelaine and Jian, Hanchao and Jiang, Danqi and Moser, Liam and Anderson, Chris and Judd, Darren and Fernandez, Jaime and Campbell, Chuck and Goswami, Antara and Gahlawat, Rajendra}
}
@article {canales_casie21-obs_2023,
	title = {CASIE21-OBS: An Open-Access, OBS Controlled-Source Seismic Data Set for Investigating the Structure and Properties of the Cascadia Accretionary Wedge and the Downgoing Explorer-Juan de Fuca-Gorda Plate System},
	journal = {Seismological Research Letters},
	volume = {94},
	year = {2023},
	note = {Publisher: Seismological Society of America (SSA)},
	month = {07/2023},
	pages = {2093{\textendash}2109},
	abstract = {Geological processes at subduction zones and their associated geohazards (e.g., megathrust earthquakes, submarine landslides, tsunamis, and arc volcanism) are, to a large extent, controlled by the structure, physical properties and fluid content of the subducting plate, the accreted sediments, and the overriding plate. In these settings, modern seismic modeling and imaging techniques based on controlled-source, multicomponent ocean-bottom seismometer (OBS) data are some of the best tools available for determining the subseafloor elastic properties, which can be linked to the aforementioned properties. Here, we present CASIE21-OBS, a controlled-source marine wide-angle OBS data set recently collected across the Cascadia convergent margin as part of the larger CAscadia Seismic Imaging Experiment 2021 (CASIE21). The main component of CASIE21 is a long-offset multichannel seismic (MCS) survey of the Cascadia margin conducted in June{\textendash}July 2021 onboard R/V M.G. Langseth (cruise MGL2104) aiming to characterize the incoming plate, the plate interface geometry and properties, and the overlying sediment stratigraphy and physical properties. CASIE21-OBS was conducted during R/V M.G. Langseth cruise MGL2103 (May 2021) and R/V Oceanus cruise OC2106A (June{\textendash}July 2021). It consisted of 63 short-period four-component OBSs deployed at a total 120 stations along 10 across-trench profiles extending from \~{}50 km seaward of the deformation front to the continental shelf, and from offshore northern Vancouver Island to offshore southern Oregon. The OBSs recorded the airgun signals of the CASIE21-MCS survey as well as natural seismicity occurring during the deployment period (24 May 2021 19:00 UTC{\textendash}9 July 2021 09:00 UTC). The OBS data are archived and available at the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology Data Management Center under network code YR_2021 for continuous time series (miniSEED) and identifier 21-008 for assembled data set (SEG-Y).},
	keywords = {3706 Geophysics},
	issn = {0895-0695},
	doi = {10.1785/0220230010},
	author = {Canales, Juan Pablo and Miller, Nathaniel C. and Baldwin, Wayne and Carbotte, Suzanne M. and Han, Shuoshuo and Boston, Brian and Jian, Hanchao and Collins, John and Lizarralde, Dan}
}
