@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 {yarce_temporal_2023,
	title = {Temporal Relationship of Slow Slip Events and Microearthquake Seismicity: Insights From Earthquake Automatic Detections in the Northern Hikurangi Margin, Aotearoa New Zealand},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {24},
	number = {3},
	year = {2023},
	note = {_eprint: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2022GC010537},
	month = {03/2023},
	pages = {e2022GC010537},
	abstract = {Slow slip events in the northern Hikurangi margin of Aotearoa New Zealand occur every 18{\textendash}24 months and last for several weeks before returning to average convergence rates of around 38 mm/yr. Along this plate boundary, the Hikurangi plateau subducts beneath the overlying Australian plate and slow slip events occur along their plate interface at depths between 2 and 15 km. To explore whether there is a temporal relationship between slow slip events and earthquake occurrence, the Regressive ESTimator automated phase arrival detection and onset estimation algorithm was applied to a data set of continuous waveform data collected by both land and ocean bottom seismometers. This detector uses an autoregressive algorithm with iterative refinement to first detect seismic events and then create a catalog of hypocenters and P and S wave arrival times. Results are compared with an available catalog of manually detected seismic events. The auto-detector was able to find more than three times the number of events detected by analysts. With our newly assembled data set of automatically detected earthquakes, we were able to determine that there was an increase in the rate of earthquake occurrence during the 2014 slow slip event.},
	keywords = {earthquake detection, Hikurangi, ocean bottom seismometers, seismicity, slow slip event, subduction},
	issn = {1525-2027},
	doi = {10.1029/2022GC010537},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2022GC010537},
	author = {Yarce, Jefferson and Sheehan, Anne F. and Roecker, Steven}
}
@article {todd_earthquakes_2018,
	title = {Earthquakes and Tremor Linked to Seamount Subduction During Shallow Slow Slip at the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	volume = {123},
	number = {8},
	year = {2018},
	note = {_eprint: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2018JB016136},
	pages = {6769{\textendash}6783},
	abstract = {Shallow slow slip events have been well documented offshore Gisborne at the northern Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand, and are associated with tectonic tremor downdip of the slow slip patch and increases in local microseismicity. Tremor and seismicity on the shallow subduction interface are often poorly resolved due to their distance from land-based seismic and geodetic networks. To address this shortcoming, the Hikurangi Ocean Bottom Investigation of Tremor and Slow Slip experiment deployed 24 absolute pressure gauges and 15 ocean bottom seismometers on the seafloor above the Gisborne slow slip patch to investigate the spatial and temporal extent of slow slip and associated tremor and earthquake activity. We present a detailed spatiotemporal analysis of the seismic signatures of various interplate slip processes associated with the September/October 2014 Gisborne slow slip event. Tectonic tremor begins toward the end and continues after the geodetically constrained slow slip event and is localized in the vicinity of two subducted seamounts within and updip of the slow slip patch. The subsequent, rather than synchronous occurrence of tremor suggests that tremor may be triggered by stress changes induced by slow slip. However, Coulomb failure stress change models based on the slow slip distribution fail to predict the location of tremor, suggesting that seamount subduction plays a dominant role in the stress state of the shallow megathrust. This and the observed interplay of seismic and aseismic interplate slip processes imply that stress changes from slow slip play a secondary role in the distribution of associated microseismicity.},
	keywords = {earthquake, New Zealand, Seamount, slow slip, subduction, tremor},
	issn = {2169-9356},
	doi = {10.1029/2018JB016136},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018JB016136},
	author = {Todd, Erin K. and Schwartz, Susan Y. and Mochizuki, Kimihiro and Wallace, Laura M. and Sheehan, Anne F. and Webb, Spahr C. and Williams, Charles A. and Nakai, Jenny and Yarce, Jefferson and Fry, Bill and Henrys, Stuart and Ito, Yoshihiro}
}
@article {eakin_crustal-scale_2014,
	title = {Crustal-scale seismic profiles across the Manila subduction zone: The transition from intraoceanic subduction to incipient collision},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	volume = {119},
	number = {1},
	year = {2014},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2013JB010395},
	pages = {1{\textendash}17},
	abstract = {AbstractWe use offshore multichannel seismic (MCS) reflection and wide-angle seismic data sets to model the velocity structure of the incipient arc-continent collision along two trench perpendicular transects in the Bashi Strait between Taiwan and Luzon. This area represents a transition from a tectonic regime dominated by subduction of oceanic crust of the South China Sea, west of the Philippines, to one dominated by subduction and eventual collision of rifted Chinese continental crust with the Luzon volcanic arc culminating in the Taiwan orogeny. The new seismic velocity models show evidence for extended to hyperextended continental crust, 10{\textendash}15 km thick, subducting along the Manila trench at 20.5{\textdegree}N along transect T1, as well as evidence indicating that this thinned continental crust is being structurally underplated to the accretionary prism at 21.5{\textdegree}N along transect T2, but not along T1 to the south. Coincident MCS reflection imaging shows highly stretched and faulted crust west of the trench along both transects and what appears to be a midcrustal detachment along transect T2, a potential zone of weakness that may be exploited by accretionary processes during subduction. An additional seismic reflection transect south of T1 shows subduction of normal ocean crust at the Manila trench.},
	keywords = {accretion, collision, rifted margin, subduction, Taiwan},
	issn = {2169-9356},
	doi = {10.1002/2013JB010395},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2013JB010395},
	author = {Eakin, Daniel H. and McIntosh, Kirk D. and Van Avendonk, H. J. A. and Lavier, Luc and Lester, Ryan and Liu, Char-Shine and Lee, Chao-Shing}
}
@article {van_avendonk_structure_2011,
	title = {Structure and serpentinization of the subducting Cocos plate offshore Nicaragua and Costa Rica},
	journal = {Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems},
	volume = {12},
	number = {6},
	year = {2011},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2011GC003592},
	abstract = {The Cocos plate experiences extensional faulting as it bends into the Middle American Trench (MAT) west of Nicaragua, which may lead to hydration of the subducting mantle. To estimate the along strike variations of volatile input from the Cocos plate into the subduction zone, we gathered marine seismic refraction data with the R/V Marcus Langseth along a 396 km long trench parallel transect offshore of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Our inversion of crustal and mantle seismic phases shows two notable features in the deep structure of the Cocos plate: (1) Normal oceanic crust of 6 km thickness from the East Pacific Rise (EPR) lies offshore Nicaragua, but offshore central Costa Rica we find oceanic crust from the northern flank of the Cocos Nazca (CN) spreading center with more complex seismic velocity structure and a thickness of 10 km. We attribute the unusual seismic structure offshore Costa Rica to the midplate volcanism in the vicinity of the Gal{\'a}pagos hot spot. (2) A decrease in Cocos plate mantle seismic velocities from \~{}7.9 km/s offshore Nicoya Peninsula to \~{}6.9 km/s offshore central Nicaragua correlates well with the northward increase in the degree of crustal faulting outboard of the MAT. The negative seismic velocity anomaly reaches a depth of \~{}12 km beneath the Moho offshore Nicaragua, which suggests that larger amounts of water are stored deep in the subducting mantle lithosphere than previously thought. If most of the mantle low velocity zone can be interpreted as serpentinization, the amount of water stored in the Cocos plate offshore central Nicaragua may be about 2.5 times larger than offshore Nicoya Peninsula. Hydration of oceanic lithosphere at deep sea trenches may be the most important mechanism for the transfer of aqueous fluids to volcanic arcs and the deeper mantle.},
	keywords = {Central America, Cocos Plate, Gal{\'a}pagos hot spot, plate bending and faulting, seismic velocities, subduction},
	issn = {1525-2027},
	doi = {10.1029/2011GC003592},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2011GC003592},
	author = {Van Avendonk, H. J. A. and Holbrook, W. S. and Lizarralde, D. and Denyer, P.}
}
@article {bezada_subduction_2010,
	title = {Subduction in the southern Caribbean: Images from finite-frequency P wave tomography},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	volume = {115},
	number = {B12},
	year = {2010},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2010JB007682},
	abstract = {The eastern boundary of the Caribbean plate is marked by subduction of the Atlantic under the Lesser Antilles. The southeastern plate boundary is characterized by a strike-slip margin, while different configurations of subduction of the southwest Caribbean under South America have been proposed. We investigate the slab geometry in the upper mantle using multiple-frequency, teleseismic P wave tomography. Waveforms from P and PKPdf phases from 285 (Mb > 5.0) events occurring at epicentral distances from 30{\textdegree} to 90{\textdegree} and greater than 150{\textdegree} were bandpass filtered and cross-correlated to obtain up to three sets of delay times for each event. The delay times were inverted using approximate first Fresnel zone sensitivity kernels. Our results show the subducting Atlantic slab, as well as a second slab in the west of the study area that we interpret as a subducting fragment of the Caribbean plate. Both slabs have steep dips where imaged and can be traced to depths greater than 600 km. These results are consistent with transition zone boundary topography as determined by receiver function analysis. The Atlantic slab extends continent-ward south of the plate bounding strike-slip margin. We interpret this extension as continental margin lithospheric mantle that is detaching from beneath South America and subducting along with the oceanic Atlantic slab. The steep subduction of the Caribbean occurs \~{}500 km landward from the trench, implying an initial stage of shallow subduction as far to the east as the Lake Maracaibo-M{\'e}rida Andes region, as has been inferred from intermediate depth seismicity.},
	keywords = {P-wave tomography, southern Caribbean, subduction},
	issn = {2156-2202},
	doi = {10.1029/2010JB007682},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2010JB007682},
	author = {Bezada, M. J. and Levander, A. and Schmandt, B.}
}
