@article {boyce_new_2023,
	title = {A new P-wave Tomographic Model (CAP22) for North America: Implications for the Subduction and Cratonic Metasomatic Modification History of Western Canada and Alaska},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	volume = {128},
	number = {3},
	year = {2023},
	note = {_eprint: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2022JB025745},
	pages = {e2022JB025745},
	abstract = {Our understanding of the present-day state and evolution of the Canadian and Alaskan mantle is hindered by a lack of absolute P-wavespeed constraints that provide complementary sensitivity to composition in conjunction with existing S-wavespeed models. Consequently, cratonic modification, orogenic history of western North America and complexities within the Alaskan Proto-Pacific subduction system remain enigmatic. One challenge concerns the difficulties in extracting absolute arrival-time measurements from often-noisy data recorded by temporary seismograph networks required to fill gaps in continental and global databases. Using the Absolute Arrival-time Recovery Method (AARM), we extract > 180,000 new absolute arrival-time residuals from seismograph stations across Canada and Alaska and combine these data with USArray and global arrival-time data from the contiguous US and Alaska. We develop a new absolute P-wavespeed tomographic model, CAP22, spanning North America that significantly improves resolution in Canada and Alaska over previous models. Slow wavespeeds below the Canadian Cordillera sharply abut fast wavespeeds of the continental interior at the Rocky Mountain Trench in southwest Canada. Slow wavespeeds below the Mackenzie Mountains continue farther inland in northwest Canada, indicating Proterozoic-Archean metasomatism of the Slave craton. Inherited tectonic lineaments colocated with this north-south wavespeed boundary suggest that both the crust and mantle may control Cordilleran orogenic processes. In Alaska, fast upper mantle wavespeeds below the Wrangell Volcanic Field favor a conventional subduction related mechanism for volcanism. Finally, seismic evidence for the subducted Kula and Yukon slabs indicate tectonic reconstructions of western North America may require revision.},
	keywords = {Alaskan Subduction Zone, body wave tomography, Cordilleran Orogenesis, North America, Slave Craton},
	issn = {2169-9356},
	doi = {10.1029/2022JB025745},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2022JB025745},
	author = {Boyce, A. and Liddell, M. V. and Pugh, S. and Brown, J. and McMurchie, E. and Parsons, A. and Est{\`e}ve, C. and Burdick, S. and Darbyshire, F. A. and Cottaar, S. and Bastow, I. D. and Schaeffer, A. J. and Audet, P. and Schutt, D. L. and Aster, R. C.}
}
@article {eilon_sub-lithospheric_2022,
	title = {Sub-Lithospheric Small-Scale Convection Tomographically Imaged Beneath the Pacific Plate},
	journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
	volume = {49},
	number = {18},
	year = {2022},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2022GL100351},
	month = {09/2022},
	pages = {e2022GL100351},
	abstract = {Small-scale convection beneath the oceanic plates has been invoked to explain off-axis nonplume volcanism, departure from simple seafloor depth-age relationships, and intraplate gravity lineations. We deployed 30 broadband ocean bottom seismometer stations on \~{}40 Ma Pacific seafloor in a region notable for gravity anomalies, measured by satellite altimetry, elongated parallel to plate motion. P-wave teleseismic tomography reveals alternating upper mantle velocity anomalies on the order of {\textpm}2\%, aligned with the gravity lineations. These features, which correspond to \~{}300{\textdegree}{\textendash}500{\textdegree}K lateral temperature contrast, and possible hydrous or carbonatitic partial melt, are{\textemdash}surprisingly{\textemdash}strongest between 150 and 260 km depth, indicating rapid vertical motions through a low-viscosity asthenospheric channel. Coherence and admittance analysis of gravity and topography using new multibeam bathymetry soundings substantiates the presence of mantle density variations, and forward modeling predicts gravity anomalies that qualitatively match observed lineations. This study provides observational support for small-scale convective rolls beneath the oceanic plates.},
	keywords = {asthenosphere, body wave tomography, mantle convection, ocean bottom seismometer, oceanic lithosphere},
	issn = {1944-8007},
	doi = {10.1029/2022GL100351},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2022GL100351},
	author = {Eilon, Zachary C. and Zhang, Lun and Gaherty, James B. and Forsyth, Donald W. and Russell, Joshua B.}
}
