@article {brandl_discontinuous_2023,
	title = {Discontinuous Igneous Addition Along the Eastern North American Margin Beneath the East Coast Magnetic Anomaly},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	volume = {128},
	number = {8},
	year = {2023},
	note = {_eprint: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2023JB026459},
	month = {08/2023},
	pages = {e2023JB026459},
	abstract = {Detailed models of crustal structure at volcanic passive margins offer insight into the role of magmatism and the distribution of igneous addition during continental rifting. The Eastern North American Margin (ENAM) is a volcanic passive margin that formed during the breakup of Pangea \~{}200 Myr ago. The offshore, margin-parallel East Coast Magnetic Anomaly (ECMA) is thought to mark the locus of syn-rift magmatism. Previous widely spaced margin-perpendicular studies seismically imaged igneous addition as seaward dipping reflectors (SDRs) and high velocity lower crust (HVLC; >7.2 km/s) beneath the ECMA. Along-strike imaging is necessary to more accurately determine the distribution and volume of igneous addition during continental breakup. We use wide-angle, marine active-source seismic data from the 2014{\textendash}2015 ENAM Community Seismic Experiment to determine crustal structure beneath a \~{}370-km-long section of the ECMA. P-wave velocity models based on data from short-period ocean bottom seismometers reveal a \~{}21-km-thick crust with laterally variable lower crust velocities ranging from 6.9 to 7.5 km/s. Sections with HVLC (>7.2 km/s) alternate with two \~{}30-km-wide areas where the average velocities are less than 7.0 km/s. This variable structure indicates that HVLC is discontinuous along the margin, reflecting variable amounts of intrusion along-strike. Our results suggest that magmatism during rifting was segmented. The HVLC discontinuities roughly align with locations of Mid-Atlantic Ridge fracture zones, which may suggest that rift segmentation influenced later segmentation of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.},
	keywords = {active source tomography, continental rifting, passive margin, seismic refraction, traveltime tomography},
	issn = {2169-9356},
	doi = {10.1029/2023JB026459},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2023JB026459},
	author = {Brandl, Collin C. and Worthington, Lindsay L. and Magnani, M. Beatrice and Shillington, Donna J. and Luckie, Thomas W.}
}
@article {lynner_crustal_2017,
	title = {Crustal structure across the eastern North American margin from ambient noise tomography},
	journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
	volume = {44},
	number = {13},
	year = {2017},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2017GL073500},
	pages = {6651{\textendash}6657},
	abstract = {Passive tectonic margins, like the eastern North American margin (ENAM), represent the meeting of oceanic and continental material where no active deformation is occurring. The recent ENAM Community Seismic Experiment provides an opportunity to examine the crustal structure across the ENAM owing to the simultaneous deployment of offshore and onshore seismic instrumentation. Using Rayleigh wave phase and group velocities derived from ambient noise data, we invert for shear velocity across the ENAM. We observe a region of transitional crustal thicknesses that connects the oceanic and continental crusts. Associated with the transitional crust is a localized positive gravitational anomaly. Farther east, the East Coast magnetic anomaly (ECMA) is located at the intersection of the transitional and oceanic crusts. We propose that underplating of dense magmatic material along the bottom of the transitional crust is responsible for the gravitational anomaly and that the ECMA demarks the location of initial oceanic crustal formation.},
	keywords = {ambient noise, crustal structure, eastern North American margin, passive margin},
	issn = {1944-8007},
	doi = {10.1002/2017GL073500},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2017GL073500},
	author = {Lynner, Colton and Porritt, Robert W.}
}
