TY - JOUR T1 - Limited mantle hydration by bending faults at the Middle America Trench JF - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth Y1 - 2020 A1 - Miller, Nathaniel C. A1 - Lizarralde, Daniel A1 - Collins, John A. A1 - Holbrook, W. Steven A1 - Van Avendonk, H. AB - Seismic anisotropy measurements show that upper mantle hydration at the Middle America Trench (MAT) is limited to serpentinization and/or water in fault zones, rather than distributed uniformly. Subduction of hydrated oceanic lithosphere recycles water back into the deep mantle, drives arc volcanism, and affects seismicity at subduction zones. Constraining the extent of upper mantle hydration is an important part of understanding many fundamental processes on Earth. Substantially reduced seismic velocities in tomography suggest that outer rise plate‐bending faults provide a pathway for seawater to rehydrate the slab mantle just prior to subduction. Estimates of outer‐rise hydration based on tomograms vary significantly, with some large enough to imply that, globally, subduction has consumed more than two oceans worth of water during the Phanerozoic. We found that, while the mean upper mantle wavespeed is reduced at the MAT outer rise, the amplitude and orientation of inherited anisotropy are preserved at depths >1 km below the Moho. At shallower depths, relict anisotropy is replaced by slowing in the fault‐normal direction. These observations are incompatible with pervasive hydration but consistent with models of wave propagation through serpentinized fault zones that thin to <100‐m in width at depths >1 km below Moho. Confining hydration to fault zones reduces water storage estimates for the MAT upper mantle from ∼3.5 wt% to <0.9 wt% H20. Since the intermediate thermal structure in the ∼24 Myr‐old MAT slab favors serpentinization, limited hydration suggests that fault mechanics are the limiting factor, not temperatures. Subducting mantle may be similarly dry globally. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Upper mantle anisotropy indicates that hydration by fluid flow along bending faults is limited to fault zones that thin with depthConfining hydration to fault zones reduces estimates of water storage by an order of magnitudeA dry, intermediate‐age slab mantle suggests that hydration may be globally limited by fault dynamics, rather than temperature Upper mantle anisotropy indicates that hydration by fluid flow along bending faults is limited to fault zones that thin with depth Confining hydration to fault zones reduces estimates of water storage by an order of magnitude A dry, intermediate‐age slab mantle suggests that hydration may be globally limited by fault dynamics, rather than temperature. UR - https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1133689698 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Limited mantle hydration by bending faults at the Middle America Trench JF - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth Y1 - 2020 A1 - Miller, Nathaniel C. A1 - Lizarralde, Daniel A1 - Collins, John A. A1 - Holbrook, W. Steven A1 - Van Avendonk, H. KW - outer-rise hydration KW - upper mantle anisotropy KW - upper mantle hydration AB - Seismic anisotropy measurements show that upper mantle hydration at the Middle America Trench (MAT) is limited to serpentinization and/or water in fault zones, rather than distributed uniformly. Subduction of hydrated oceanic lithosphere recycles water back into the deep mantle, drives arc volcanism, and affects seismicity at subduction zones. Constraining the extent of upper mantle hydration is an important part of understanding many fundamental processes on Earth. Substantially reduced seismic velocities in tomography suggest that outer rise plate-bending faults provide a pathway for seawater to rehydrate the slab mantle just prior to subduction. Estimates of outer-rise hydration based on tomograms vary significantly, with some large enough to imply that, globally, subduction has consumed more than two oceans worth of water during the Phanerozoic. We found that, while the mean upper mantle wavespeed is reduced at the MAT outer rise, the amplitude and orientation of inherited anisotropy are preserved at depths >1 km below the Moho. At shallower depths, relict anisotropy is replaced by slowing in the fault-normal direction. These observations are incompatible with pervasive hydration but consistent with models of wave propagation through serpentinized fault zones that thin to <100-m in width at depths >1 km below Moho. Confining hydration to fault zones reduces water storage estimates for the MAT upper mantle from ∼3.5 wt% to <0.9 wt% H20. Since the intermediate thermal structure in the ∼24 Myr-old MAT slab favors serpentinization, limited hydration suggests that fault mechanics are the limiting factor, not temperatures. Subducting mantle may be similarly dry globally. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Upper mantle anisotropy indicates that hydration by fluid flow along bending faults is limited to fault zones that thin with depthConfining hydration to fault zones reduces estimates of water storage by an order of magnitudeA dry, intermediate-age slab mantle suggests that hydration may be globally limited by fault dynamics, rather than temperature Upper mantle anisotropy indicates that hydration by fluid flow along bending faults is limited to fault zones that thin with depth Confining hydration to fault zones reduces estimates of water storage by an order of magnitude A dry, intermediate-age slab mantle suggests that hydration may be globally limited by fault dynamics, rather than temperature. UR - https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1133689698 N1 - Type: Journal Article ER - TY - JOUR T1 - High‐Resolution Constraints on Pacific Upper Mantle Petrofabric Inferred From Surface‐Wave Anisotropy JF - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth Y1 - 2019 A1 - Russell, Joshua B. A1 - Gaherty, James B. A1 - Lin, Pei‐Ying Patty A1 - Lizarralde, Daniel A1 - Collins, John A. A1 - Hirth, Greg A1 - Evans, Rob L. VL - 124 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018JB016598 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Lake‐Bottom Seismograph Observations of Microseisms in Yellowstone Lake JF - Seismological Research Letters Y1 - 2019 A1 - Smalls, Paris T. A1 - Sohn, Robert A. A1 - Collins, John A. AB - Ambient‐noise records from a seismograph deployed in Yellowstone Lake during July–August 2016 contain high‐amplitude signals in the 0.4–1.1 Hz frequency band, which exhibit strong diurnal variations. These diurnal amplitude variations are highly coherent with wind‐speed data from a meteorological station on the lake’s northern shore, and as the wind builds over the course of a typical summer day, the amplitude and period of the microseism signal progressively increase, consistent with the evolution of a gravity‐wave amplitude spectrum. The peak spectral levels are at frequencies of ∼1.0  Hz, which is roughly twice the peak frequency of a fetch‐limited wavefield given the 10–19 km fetch to our lake‐floor station, suggesting the signals represent double‐frequency microseisms. The ∼3.4  hr lag observed between wind speed and seismic noise levels are consistent with this interpretation. VL - 90 UR - https://doi.org/10.1785/0220180242 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Spatial and Temporal Variations in Earthquake Stress Drop on Gofar Transform Fault, East Pacific Rise: Implications for Fault Strength JF - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth Y1 - 2018 A1 - Moyer, Pamela A. A1 - Boettcher, Margaret S. A1 - McGuire, Jeffery J. A1 - Collins, John A. KW - earthquake stress drop KW - earthquake swarms KW - fault zone damage KW - oceanic transform faults KW - rupture dynamics KW - seismic coupling AB - On Gofar Transform Fault on the East Pacific Rise, the largest earthquakes (6.0 ≤ MW ≤ 6.2) have repeatedly ruptured the same portion of the fault, while intervening fault segments host swarms of microearthquakes. These long-term patterns in earthquake occurrence suggest that heterogeneous fault zone properties control earthquake behavior. Using waveforms from ocean bottom seismometers that recorded seismicity before and after an anticipated 2008 MW 6.0 mainshock, we investigate the role that differences in material properties have on earthquake rupture at Gofar. We determine stress drop for 138 earthquakes (2.3 ≤ MW ≤ 4.0) that occurred within and between the rupture areas of large earthquakes. Stress drops are calculated from corner frequencies derived using an empirical Green's function spectral ratio method, and seismic moments are obtained by fitting the omega-square source model to the low frequency amplitude of the displacement spectrum. Our analysis yields stress drops from 0.04 to 3.2 MPa with statistically significant spatial variation, including 2 times higher average stress drop in fault segments where large earthquakes also occur compared to fault segments that host earthquake swarms. We find an inverse correlation between stress drop and P wave velocity reduction, which we interpret as the effect of fault zone damage on the ability of the fault to store strain energy that leads to our spatial variations in stress drop. Additionally, we observe lower stress drops following the MW 6.0 mainshock, consistent with increased damage and decreased fault strength after a large earthquake. VL - 123 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018JB015942 N1 - _eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2018JB015942 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Dynamic triggering and earthquake swarms on East Pacific Rise transform faults JF - Geophysical Research Letters Y1 - 2017 A1 - Cattania, Camilla A1 - McGuire, Jeffrey J. A1 - Collins, John A. VL - 44 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2016GL070857 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Observations of Seismicity and Ground Motion in the Northeast U.S. Atlantic Margin from Ocean‐Bottom Seismometer Data JF - Seismological Research Letters Y1 - 2017 A1 - Flores, Claudia H. A1 - ten Brink, Uri S. A1 - McGuire, Jeffrey J. A1 - Collins, John A. VL - 88 UR - https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/srl/article/88/1/23-31/314313 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - High-resolution seismic constraints on flow dynamics in the oceanic asthenosphere JF - Nature Y1 - 2016 A1 - Lin, Pei-Ying Patty A1 - Gaherty, James B. A1 - Jin, Ge A1 - Collins, John A. A1 - Lizarralde, Daniel A1 - Evans, Rob. L. A1 - Hirth, Greg VL - 535 UR - http://www.nature.com/articles/nature18012 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Lithospheric shear velocity structure of South Island, New Zealand, from amphibious Rayleigh wave tomography JF - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ball, Justin S. A1 - Sheehan, Anne F. A1 - Stachnik, Joshua C. A1 - Lin, Fan-Chi A1 - Yeck, William L. A1 - Collins, John A. VL - 121 UR - http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/2015JB012726 ER - TY - CONF T1 - A second look at Chip Scale Atomic Clocks for long term precision timing T2 - OCEANS 2016 MTS/IEEE Monterey Y1 - 2016 A1 - Gardner, Alan T. A1 - Collins, John A. JF - OCEANS 2016 MTS/IEEE Monterey PB - IEEE SN - 978-1-5090-1537-5 UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7761268/ ER - TY - JOUR T1 - An Attenuation Study of Body Waves in the South‐Central Region of the Gulf of California, México JF - Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America Y1 - 2014 A1 - Vidales‐Basurto, Claudia A. A1 - Castro, Raúl R. A1 - Huerta, Carlos I. A1 - Sumy, Danielle F. A1 - Gaherty, James B. A1 - Collins, John A. AB - {We studied the seismic attenuation of body waves in the south‐central region of the Gulf of California (GoC) with records from the Network of Autonomously Recording Seismographs of Baja California (NARS‐Baja), from the Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada’s Broadband Seismological Network of the GoC (RESBAN), and from the ocean‐bottom seismographs (OBS) deployed as part of the Sea of Cortez Ocean Bottom Array experiment (SCOOBA). We examine 27 well‐located earthquakes reported in Sumy et al. (2013) that occurred from October 2005 to October 2006 with magnitudes (Mw) between 3.5 and 4.8. We estimated S‐wave site effects by calculating horizontal‐to‐vertical spectral ratios and determined attenuation functions with a nonparametric model by inverting the observed spectral amplitudes of 21 frequencies between 0.13 and 12.59 Hz for the SCOOBA (OBS) stations and 19 frequencies between 0.16 and 7.94 Hz for NARS‐Baja and RESBAN stations. We calculated the geometrical spreading and the attenuation (1/Q) factors for two distance intervals (10–120 and 120–220 km, respectively) for each frequency considered. The estimates of Q obtained with the SCOOBA (OBS) records for the interval 10–120 km indicate that the P waves attenuate more than S waves (QP=34±1.2f 0.82±0.10 VL - 104 UR - https://doi.org/10.1785/0120140015 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - THE CASCADIA INITIATIVE: A Sea Change In Seismological Studies of Subduction Zones JF - Oceanography Y1 - 2014 A1 - Toomey, Douglas R. A1 - Allen, Richard M. A1 - Barclay, Andrew H. A1 - Bell, Samuel W. A1 - Bromirski, Peter D. A1 - Carlson, Richard L. A1 - Chen, Xiaowei A1 - Collins, John A. A1 - Dziak, Robert P. A1 - Evers, Brent A1 - Forsyth, Donald W. A1 - Gerstoft, Peter A1 - Hooft, Emilie E.E. A1 - Livelybrooks, Dean A1 - Lodewyk, Jessica A. A1 - Luther, Douglas S. A1 - McGuire, Jeffrey J. A1 - Schwartz, Susan Y. A1 - Tolstoy, Maya A1 - Tréhu, Anne M. A1 - Weirathmueller, Michelle A1 - Wilcock, William S.D. AB - ABSTRACTIncreasing public awareness that the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest is capable of great earthquakes (magnitude 9 and greater) motivates the Cascadia Initiative, an ambitious onshore/offshore seismic and geodetic experiment that takes advantage of an amphibious array to study questions ranging from megathrust earthquakes, to volcanic arc structure, to the formation, deformation and hydration of the Juan De Fuca and Gorda Plates. Here, we provide an overview of the Cascadia Initiative, including its primary science objectives, its experimental design and implementation, and a preview of how the resulting data are being used by a diverse and growing scientific community. The Cascadia Initiative also exemplifies how new technology and community-based experiments are opening up frontiers for marine science. The new technology—shielded ocean bottom seismometers—is allowing more routine investigation of the source zone of megathrust earthquakes, which almost exclusively lies offshore and in shallow water. The Cascadia Initiative offers opportunities and accompanying challenges to a rapidly expanding community of those who use ocean bottom seismic data. VL - 27 UR - https://www.jstor.org/stable/24862164 N1 - Publisher: Oceanography Society ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Correction of Ocean‐Bottom Seismometer Instrumental Clock Errors Using Ambient Seismic Noise JF - Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America Y1 - 2014 A1 - Gouédard, Pierre A1 - Seher, Tim A1 - McGuire, Jeffrey J. A1 - Collins, John A. A1 - van der Hilst, Robert D. AB - Very accurate timing of seismic recordings is critical for modern processing techniques. Clock synchronization among the instruments constituting an array is, however, difficult without direct communication between them. Synchronization to Global Positioning System (GPS) time is one option for on‐land deployments, but not for underwater surveys as electromagnetic signals do not propagate efficiently in water. If clock drift is linear, time corrections for ocean‐bottom seismometer (OBS) deployments can be estimated through GPS synchronization before and after the deployment, but this is not sufficient for many applications as the nonlinear component of the drift can reach tens to hundreds of milliseconds for long‐duration experiments. We present two techniques to retrieve timing differences between simultaneous recordings at ocean‐bottom instruments after deployment has ended. Both techniques are based on the analysis of the cross correlation of ambient seismic noise and are effective even if clock drift is nonlinear. The first, called time symmetry analysis, is easy to apply but requires a proper illumination so that the noise cross‐correlation functions are symmetric in time. The second is based on the doublet analysis method and does not have this restriction. Advantages and drawbacks of both approaches are discussed. Application to two OBS data sets shows that both can achieve synchronization of recordings down to about five milliseconds (a few percent of the main period used). VL - 104 UR - https://doi.org/10.1785/0120130157 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Interferometry of infragravity waves off New Zealand JF - Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans Y1 - 2014 A1 - Godin, Oleg A. A1 - Zabotin, Nikolay A. A1 - Sheehan, Anne F. A1 - Collins, John A. KW - deep ocean KW - random wave fields KW - Surface gravity waves KW - wave interferometry AB - AbstractWave interferometry is a remote sensing technique, which is increasingly employed in helioseismology, seismology, and acoustics to retrieve parameters of the propagation medium from two-point cross-correlation functions of random wavefields. Here we apply interferometry to yearlong records of seafloor pressure at 28 locations off New Zealand's South Island to investigate propagation and directivity properties of infragravity waves away from shore. A compressed cross-correlation function technique is proposed to make the interferometry of dispersive waves more robust, decrease the necessary noise averaging time, and simplify retrieval of quantitative information from noise cross correlations. The emergence of deterministic wave arrivals from cross correlations of random wavefields is observed up to the maximum range of 692 km between the pressure sensors in the array. Free, linear waves with a strongly anisotropic distribution of power flux density are found to be dominant in the infragravity wavefield. Lowest-frequency components of the infragravity wavefield are largely isotropic. The anisotropy has its maximum in the middle of the spectral band and decreases at the high-frequency end of the spectrum. Highest anisotropy peaks correspond to waves coming from portions of the New Zealand's shoreline. Significant contributions are also observed from waves propagating along the coastline and probably coming from powerful sources in the northeast Pacific. Infragravity wave directivity is markedly different to the east and to the west of the South Island. The northwest coast of the South Island is found to be a net source of the infragravity wave energy. VL - 119 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2013JC009395 N1 - _eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2013JC009395 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A joint Monte Carlo analysis of seafloor compliance, Rayleigh wave dispersion and receiver functions at ocean bottom seismic stations offshore New Zealand JF - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ball, Justin S. A1 - Sheehan, Anne F. A1 - Stachnik, Joshua C. A1 - Lin, Fan-Chi A1 - Collins, John A. KW - Monte Carlo KW - New Zealand KW - OBS receiver function KW - seafloor compliance KW - sediment shear modes KW - surface waves AB - Teleseismic body-wave imaging techniques such as receiver function analysis can be notoriously difficult to employ on ocean-bottom seismic data due largely to multiple reverberations within the water and low-velocity sediments. In lieu of suppressing this coherently scattered noise in ocean-bottom receiver functions, these site effects can be modeled in conjunction with shear velocity information from seafloor compliance and surface wave dispersion measurements to discern crustal structure. A novel technique to estimate 1-D crustal shear-velocity profiles from these data using Monte Carlo sampling is presented here. We find that seafloor compliance inversions and P-S conversions observed in the receiver functions provide complimentary constraints on sediment velocity and thickness. Incoherent noise in receiver functions from the MOANA ocean bottom seismic experiment limit the accuracy of the practical analysis at crustal scales, but synthetic recovery tests and comparison with independent unconstrained nonlinear optimization results affirm the utility of this technique in principle. VL - 15 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2014GC005412 N1 - _eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2014GC005412 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Pn anisotropy beneath the South Island of New Zealand and implications for distributed deformation in continental lithosphere JF - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth Y1 - 2014 A1 - Collins, John A. A1 - Molnar, Peter KW - anisotropy KW - Lithosphere KW - New Zealand KW - Pn AB - Pn travel times from regional earthquakes recorded both by stations on New Zealand and by ocean bottom seismographs deployed offshore indicate anisotropy in the uppermost mantle beneath the region. The largest anisotropy of 8% (±2%, 1σ) lies beneath the deforming part of the South Island to just off its West Coast, a zone roughly 100–200 km wide. The fastest propagation is aligned N60°E (±3°), essentially parallel to the largely strike-slip relative plate motion since 20 Ma, also N60°E. The magnitude of anisotropy decreases abruptly northwest and southeast of this zone, and on the southeast side of the island, the orientation of fastest propagation is between N32°W and N-S. The N60°E orientation of fast propagation is consistent with finite strain within the uppermost part of the mantle lithosphere if the measured 850 km of displacement of the Pacific plate past the Australia plate is spread over a region with a width of 100–200 km. The agreement of this orientation of fast propagation with the orientation or relative plate motion suggests the possibility of but does not require some dynamic recrystallization in rock as cold as 500–800°C, where Peierls creep seems to be the likely deformation mechanism. Such a strain distribution matches deformation of a thin viscous sheet that obeys a constitutive relationship of the form , where is the average strain rate and τ is the operative deviatoric stress, with an average value of n ≈ 3–10. Presumably, the NW-SE fast propagation in the region southeast of the island results from strain that precedes the Cenozoic deformation that has shaped the island. VL - 119 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2014JB011233 N1 - _eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2014JB011233 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The relationship between seismicity and fault structure on the Discovery transform fault, East Pacific Rise JF - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems Y1 - 2014 A1 - Wolfson-Schwehr, Monica A1 - Boettcher, Margaret S. A1 - McGuire, Jeffrey J. A1 - Collins, John A. KW - earthquakes KW - East Pacific Rise KW - fault structure KW - transform fault AB - There is a global seismic moment deficit on mid-ocean ridge transform faults, and the largest earthquakes on these faults do not rupture the full fault area. We explore the influence of physical fault structure, including step-overs in the fault trace, on the seismic behavior of the Discovery transform fault, 4S on the East Pacific Rise. One year of microseismicity recorded during a 2008 ocean bottom seismograph deployment (24,377 0 ML 4.6 earthquakes) and 24 years of Mw 5.4 earthquakes obtained from the Global Centroid Moment Tensor catalog, are correlated with surface fault structure delineated from high-resolution multibeam bathymetry. Each of the 15 5.4 Mw 6.0 earthquakes that occurred on Discovery between 1 January 1990 and 1 April 2014 was relocated into one of five distinct rupture patches using a teleseismic surface wave cross-correlation technique. Microseismicity was relocated using the HypoDD relocation algorithm. The western fault segment of Discovery (DW) is composed of three zones of varying structure and seismic behavior: a zone with no large events and abundant microseismicity, a fully coupled zone with large earthquakes, and a complex zone with multiple fault strands and abundant seismicity. In general, microseismicity is reduced within the patches defined by the large, repeating earthquakes. While the extent of the large rupture patches on DW correlates with physical features in the bathymetry, step-overs in the primary fault trace are not observed at patch boundaries, suggesting along-strike heterogeneity in fault zone properties controls the size and location of the large events. VL - 15 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2014GC005445 N1 - _eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2014GC005445 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Upper mantle seismic anisotropy at a strike-slip boundary: South Island, New Zealand JF - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth Y1 - 2014 A1 - Zietlow, Daniel W. A1 - Sheehan, Anne F. A1 - Molnar, Peter H. A1 - Savage, Martha K. A1 - Hirth, Greg A1 - Collins, John A. A1 - Hager, Bradford H. KW - mantle lithosphere KW - MOANA KW - New Zealand KW - ocean bottom seismometers KW - seismic anisotropy KW - South Island AB - New shear wave splitting measurements made from stations onshore and offshore the South Island of New Zealand show a zone of anisotropy 100–200 km wide. Measurements in central South Island and up to approximately 100 km offshore from the west coast yield orientations of the fast quasi-shear wave nearly parallel to relative plate motion, with increased obliquity to this orientation observed farther from shore. On the eastern side of the island, fast orientations rotate counterclockwise to become nearly perpendicular to the orientation of relative plate motion approximately 200 km off the east coast. Uniform delay times between the fast and slow quasi-shear waves of nearly 2.0 s onshore continue to stations approximately 100 km off the west coast, after which they decrease to 1 s at 200 km. Stations more than 300 km from the west coast show little to no splitting. East coast stations have delay times around 1 s. Simple strain fields calculated from a thin viscous sheet model (representing distributed lithospheric deformation) with strain rates decreasing exponentially to both the northwest and southeast with e-folding dimensions of 25–35 km (approximately 75% of the deformation within a zone 100–140 km wide) match orientations and amounts of observed splitting. A model of deformation localized in the lithosphere and then spreading out in the asthenosphere also yields predictions consistent with observed splitting if, at depths of 100–130 km below the lithosphere, typical grain sizes are 6–7 mm. VL - 119 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2013JB010676 N1 - _eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2013JB010676 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Mechanisms of Earthquakes and Faulting in the Southern Gulf of California JF - Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America Y1 - 2013 A1 - Sumy, Danielle F. A1 - Gaherty, James B. A1 - Kim, Won‐Young A1 - Diehl, Tobias A1 - Collins, John A. AB - Accurate earthquake locations and their focal mechanisms can illuminate the distribution and mode of deformation at rifted continental margins. The Pacific–North America (Pa–NA) plate boundary within the Gulf of California (GoC) provides an excellent opportunity to explore the evolution and kinematics of rifting, as continental extension in the north transitions to seafloor spreading in the south. From October 2005 to October 2006, an array of eight four‐component ocean‐bottom seismographs deployed in the GoC recorded seismicity as part of the Sea of Cortez Ocean‐Bottom Array (SCOOBA) experiment. By combining the data with those from the onshore Network of Autonomously Recording Seismographs (NARS)‐Baja array, we detect and locate ∼700 earthquakes (Mw 2.2–6.6) mainly along the northwest–southeast‐striking transform faults that delineate the plate boundary. For 36 events (Mw 3.5–6.6) with high signal‐to‐noise ratio in a long‐period (10–20 s) band, we determine deviatoric moment tensors and associated double‐couple focal mechanisms by regional waveform inversion. Many focal mechanisms are consistent with right‐lateral strike‐slip faulting along the Pa–NA transform fault system, which suggests that the transform faults primarily accommodate seismic deformation within the gulf. In addition, we capture a swarm of events on Baja California along the right‐lateral northwest–southeast‐striking Las Viboras–El Azufre fault, which may be related to ongoing geothermal activity and volcanic deformation within the peninsula. The combination of high‐resolution earthquake locations and focal mechanisms improves our understanding of the distribution of seismic deformation within the greater extensional zone in the southern GoC.Online Material: Earthquake catalog of the 695 events detected and located during our combined on‐/offshore deployment of seismometers. VL - 103 UR - https://doi.org/10.1785/0120120080 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Millimeter-level precision in a seafloor geodesy experiment at the Discovery transform fault, East Pacific Rise JF - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems Y1 - 2013 A1 - McGuire, Jeffrey J. A1 - Collins, John A. KW - oceanic transform fault KW - seafloor geodesy AB - Direct-path acoustic ranging is a promising seafloor geodetic technique for continuous high-resolution monitoring of geodynamical process such as fault slip and magma intrusion. Here we report on a yearlong acoustic ranging experiment conducted across the discovery transform fault at ∼4°S on the East Pacific Rise. The ranging instruments utilized a novel acoustic signal designed to enhance precision. We find that, after correcting for variations in sound speed at the path end-points, the ranging measurements have a precision of ∼1 mm over baselines approaching 1 km in length. The primary difficulty in this particular experiment was with the physical stability of the benchmarks, which were deployed free fall from a ship. Despite the stability issues, it appears that the portion of the transform fault that the array covered was locked during the year of our survey. The primary obstacle to continuous, high sample rate, high-precision geodetic monitoring of oceanic ridges and transform faults is now limited to the construction of geodetic monuments that are well anchored into bedrock. VL - 14 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ggge.20225 N1 - _eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ggge.20225 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Power spectra of infragravity waves in a deep ocean JF - Geophysical Research Letters Y1 - 2013 A1 - Godin, Oleg A. A1 - Zabotin, Nikolay A. A1 - Sheehan, Anne F. A1 - Yang, Zhaohui A1 - Collins, John A. KW - deep ocean KW - random wave fields KW - Surface gravity waves KW - wave spectra AB - AbstractInfragravity waves (IGWs) play an important role in coupling wave processes in the ocean, ice shelves, atmosphere, and the solid Earth. Due to the paucity of experimental data, little quantitative information is available about power spectra of IGWs away from the shore. Here we use continuous, yearlong records of pressure at 28 locations on the seafloor off New Zealand's South Island to investigate spectral and spatial distribution of IGW energy. Dimensional analysis of diffuse IGW fields reveals universal properties of the power spectra observed at different water depths and leads to a simple, predictive model of the IGW spectra. While sources of IGWs off New Zealand are found to have a flat power spectrum, the IGW energy density has a pronounced dependence on frequency and local water depth as a result of the interaction of the waves with varying bathymetry. VL - 40 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/grl.50418 N1 - _eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/grl.50418 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The character of seafloor ambient noise recorded offshore New Zealand: Results from the MOANA ocean bottom seismic experiment JF - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems Y1 - 2012 A1 - Yang, Zhaohui A1 - Sheehan, Anne F. A1 - Collins, John A. A1 - Laske, Gabi KW - continental shelf KW - infragravity wave KW - New Zealand KW - noise KW - OBS AB - {We analyze the characteristics of ambient noise recorded on ocean-bottom seismographs using data from the 2009–2010 MOANA (Marine Observations of Anisotropy Near Aotearoa) seismic experiment deployed west and east of South Island, New Zealand. Microseism and infragravity noise peaks are clear on data recorded on the vertical channel of the seismometer and on the pressure sensor. The noise levels in the infragravity band (<0.03 Hz) on the horizontal seismometer channels are too high to show the infragravity peak. There is a small difference (∼0.25 Hz versus ∼0.2 Hz) in microseism peak frequencies between the two sides of the South Island on all three seismic channels. Our results show clear depth dependence between the peak frequency of infragravity waves and the water depth. We find that the product of water depth and wave number at the peak frequency is a constant VL - 13 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2012GC004201 N1 - _eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2012GC004201 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Seismic velocity constraints on the material properties that control earthquake behavior at the Quebrada-Discovery-Gofar transform faults, East Pacific Rise JF - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth Y1 - 2012 A1 - Roland, Emily A1 - Lizarralde, Dan A1 - McGuire, Jeffrey J. A1 - Collins, John A. KW - fault structure KW - marine seismology KW - rupture dynamics KW - tomography KW - transform fault AB - Mid-ocean ridge transform faults (RTFs) vary strongly along strike in their ability to generate large earthquakes. This general observation suggests that local variations in material properties along RTFs exert a primary control on earthquake rupture dynamics. We explore these relationships by examining the seismic structure of two RTFs that have distinctly different seismic coupling. We determine the seismic velocity structure at the Gofar and Quebrada faults on the East Pacific Rise (EPR) using P wave traveltime tomography with data from two active-source wide-angle refraction lines crossing the faults. We image low-velocity zones (LVZs) at both faults, where P wave velocities are reduced by as much as 0.5–1.0 km/s (∼10–20%) within a several kilometer wide region. At the Gofar fault, the LVZ extends through the entire crust, into the seismogenic zone. We rule out widespread serpentinization as an explanation for the low velocities, owing to the lack of a corresponding signal in the locally measured gravity field. The reduced velocities can be explained if the plate boundary region is composed of fault material with enhanced fluid-filled porosity (1.5–8%). Local seismic observations indicate that the high-porosity region lies within a ∼10 km long portion of the fault that fails in large swarms of microearthquakes and acts as a barrier to the propagation of large (M ∼ 6.0) earthquakes. Tomographic images of fault structure combined with observed earthquake behavior suggest that EPR transform segments capable of generating large earthquakes have relatively intact gabbro within the seismogenic zone, whereas segments that slip aseismically or via earthquake swarms are composed of highly fractured, ≥2 km wide damage zones that extend throughout the crust. VL - 117 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2012JB009422 N1 - _eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2012JB009422 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Seismicity of the Atlantis Massif detachment fault, 30°N at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge JF - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems Y1 - 2012 A1 - Collins, John A. A1 - Smith, Deborah K. A1 - McGuire, Jeffrey J. KW - Atlantis Massif KW - hydroacoustic KW - Mid-Atlantic Ridge KW - oceanic detachment fault KW - seismicity KW - T-phase AB - At the oceanic core complex that forms the Atlantis Massif at 30°N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, slip along the detachment fault for the last 1.5–2 Ma has brought lower crust and mantle rocks to the seafloor. Hydroacoustic data collected between 1999 and 2003 suggest that seismicity occurred near the top of the Massif, mostly on the southeastern section, while detected seismicity along the adjacent ridge axis was sparse. In 2005, five short-period ocean bottom seismographs (OBS) were deployed on and around the Massif as a pilot experiment to help constrain the distribution of seismicity in this region. Analysis of six months of OBS data indicates that, in contrast to the results of the earlier hydroacoustic study, the vast majority of the seismicity is located within the axial valley. During the OBS deployment, and within the array, seismicity was primarily composed of a relatively constant background rate and two large aftershock sequences that included 5 teleseismic events with magnitudes between 4.0 and 4.5. The aftershock sequences were located on the western side of the axial valley adjacent to the Atlantis Massif and close to the ridge-transform intersection. They follow Omori's law, and constitute more than half of the detected earthquakes. The OBS data also indicate a low but persistent level of seismicity associated with active faulting within the Atlantis Massif in the same region as the hydroacoustically detected seismicity. Within the Massif, the data indicate a north-south striking normal fault, and a left-lateral, strike-slip fault near a prominent, transform-parallel, north-facing scarp. Both features could be explained by changes in the stress field at the inside corner associated with weak coupling on the Atlantis transform. Alternatively, the normal faulting within the Massif might indicate deformation of the detachment surface as it rolls over to near horizontal from an initial dip of about 60° beneath the axis, and the strike-slip events may indicate transform-parallel movement on adjacent detachment surfaces. VL - 13 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2012GC004210 N1 - _eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2012GC004210 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Shear wave splitting at the Hawaiian hot spot from the PLUME land and ocean bottom seismometer deployments JF - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems Y1 - 2012 A1 - Collins, John A. A1 - Wolfe, Cecily J. A1 - Laske, Gabi KW - Hawaii KW - splittting AB - We examine upper mantle anisotropy across the Hawaiian Swell by analyzing shear wave splitting of teleseismic SKSwaves recorded by the PLUME broadband land and ocean bottom seismometer deployments. Mantle anisotropy beneath the oceans is often attributed to flow-induced lattice-preferred orientation of olivine. Splitting observations may reflect a combination of both fossil lithospheric anisotropy and anisotropy due to present-day asthenospheric flow, and here we address the question whether splitting provides diagnostic information on possible asthenospheric plume flow at Hawaii. We find that the splitting fast directions are coherent and predominantly parallel to the fossil spreading direction, suggesting that shear wave splitting dominantly reflects fossil lithospheric anisotropy. The signature of anisotropy from asthenospheric flow is more subtle, although it could add some perturbation to lithospheric splitting. The measured delay times are typically 1 s or less, although a few stations display larger splitting delays of 1–2 s. The variability in the delay times across the different stations indicates differences in the degree of anisotropy or in the thickness of the anisotropic layer or in the effect of multilayer anisotropy. Regions with smaller splitting times may have experienced processes that modified the lithosphere and partially erased the fossil anisotropy; alternatively, asthenospheric splitting may either constructively add to or destructively subtract from lithospheric splitting to produce the observed variability in delay times. VL - 13 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2011GC003881 N1 - _eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2011GC003881 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Variations in earthquake rupture properties along the Gofar transform fault, East Pacific Rise JF - Nature Geoscience Y1 - 2012 A1 - McGuire, Jeffrey J. A1 - Collins, John A. A1 - Gouédard, Pierre A1 - Roland, Emily A1 - Lizarralde, Dan A1 - Boettcher, Margaret S. A1 - Behn, Mark D. A1 - van der Hilst, Robert D. KW - seismology AB - Mid-ocean ridge transform faults experience more foreshocks than continental faults, yet the mainshock rarely ruptures the entire fault. Analysis of seismic data from the Gofar transform fault at the East Pacific Rise indicates that the foreshock region has different material properties from the mainshock region, and acts as a barrier to rupture propagation. VL - 5 UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo1454 N1 - Number: 5 Publisher: Nature Publishing Group ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Asymmetric shallow mantle structure beneath the Hawaiian Swell-evidence from Rayleigh waves recorded by the PLUME network JF - Geophysical Journal International Y1 - 2011 A1 - Laske, Gabi A1 - Markee, Amanda A1 - Orcutt, John A. A1 - Wolfe, Cecily J. A1 - Collins, John A. A1 - Solomon, Sean C. A1 - Detrick, Robert S. A1 - Bercovici, David A1 - Hauri, Erik H. AB - We present models of the 3-D shear velocity structure of the lithosphere and asthenosphere beneath the Hawaiian hotspot and surrounding region. The models are derived from long-period Rayleigh-wave phase velocities that were obtained from the analysis of seismic recordings collected during two year-long deployments for the Hawaiian Plume-Lithosphere Undersea Mantle Experiment. For this experiment, broad-band seismic sensors were deployed at nearly 70 seafloor sites as well as 10 sites on the Hawaiian Islands. Our seismic images result from a two-step inversion of path-averaged dispersion curves using the two-station method. The images reveal an asymmetry in shear velocity structure with respect to the island chain, most notably in the lower lithosphere at depths of 60 km and greater, and in the asthenosphere. An elongated, 100-km-wide and 300-km-long low-velocity anomaly reaches to depths of at least 140 km. At depths of 60 km and shallower, the lowest velocities are found near the northern end of the island of Hawaii. No major velocity anomalies are found to the south or southeast of Hawaii, at any depth. The low-velocity anomaly in the asthenosphere is consistent with an excess temperature of 200-250 °C and partial melt at the level of a few percent by volume, if we assume that compositional variations as a result of melt extraction play a minor role. We also image small-scale low-velocity anomalies within the lithosphere that may be associated with the volcanic fields surrounding the Hawaiian Islands. VL - 187 UR - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05238.x ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Mantle P-wave velocity structure beneath the Hawaiian hotspot JF - Earth and Planetary Science Letters Y1 - 2011 A1 - Wolfe, Cecily J. A1 - Solomon, Sean C. A1 - Laske, Gabi A1 - Collins, John A. A1 - Detrick, Robert S. A1 - Orcutt, John A. A1 - Bercovici, David A1 - Hauri, Erik H. KW - finite-frequency tomography KW - Hawaii KW - hotspot KW - mantle plume AB - Three-dimensional images of P-wave velocity structure beneath the Hawaiian Islands, obtained from a network of seafloor and land seismometers, show an upper-mantle low-velocity anomaly that is elongated in the direction of the island chain and surrounded by a high-velocity anomaly in the shallow upper mantle that is parabolic in map view. Low velocities continue downward to the mantle transition zone between 410 and 660km depth and extend into the topmost lower mantle, although the resolution of lower mantle structure from this data set is limited. Comparisons of inversions with separate data sets at different frequencies suggest that contamination by water reverberations is not markedly biasing the P-wave imaging of mantle structure. Many aspects of the P-wave images are consistent with independent tomographic images of S-wave velocity in the region, but there are some differences in upper mantle structure between P-wave and S-wave velocities. Inversions without station terms show a southwestward shift in the location of lowest P-wave velocities in the uppermost mantle relative to the pattern for shear waves, and inversions with station terms show differences between P-wave and S-wave velocity heterogeneity in the shallow upper mantle beneath and immediately east of the island of Hawaii. Nonetheless, the combined data sets are in general agreement with the hypothesis that the Hawaiian hotspot is the result of an upwelling, high-temperature plume. The broad upper-mantle low-velocity region beneath the Hawaiian Islands may reflect the diverging “pancake” at the top of the upwelling zone; the surrounding region of high velocities could represent a downwelling curtain; and the low-velocity anomalies southeast of Hawaii in the transition zone and topmost lower mantle are consistent with predictions of plume tilt. VL - 303 UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X11000161 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Seismicity around the Hawaiian Islands Recorded by the PLUME Seismometer Networks: Insight into Faulting near Maui, Molokai, and Oahu JF - Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America Y1 - 2011 A1 - Anchieta, Maria C. A1 - Wolfe, Cecily J. A1 - Pavlis, Gary L. A1 - Vernon, Frank L. A1 - Eakins, Jennifer A. A1 - Solomon, Sean C. A1 - Laske, Gabi A1 - Collins, John A. AB - Instrumental limitations have long prevented the detailed characterization of offshore earthquakes around the Hawaiian Islands, and little is known about the spatial distribution of earthquakes in regions outside the vicinity of the well-monitored island of Hawaii. Here, we analyze data from the deployment of two successive networks of ocean-bottom seismometers (OBSs) as part of the Plume-Lithosphere Undersea Melt Experiment (PLUME) to better determine seismicity patterns along the Hawaiian Islands and their offshore regions. We find that earthquake detection rates are improved when seismograms are high-pass filtered above ∼5 Hz to reduce the background seismic noise. Hypocentral solutions have been determined for 1147 previously undetected microearthquakes, and an additional 2880 events correspond to earthquakes already in the catalog of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO). The spatial patterns of earthquakes identified solely on the PLUME network provide complementary information to patterns identified by the HVO network. A diffuse pattern of seismicity is found to the southeast of the island of Hawaii, and clusters of earthquakes are located west of the island. Many microearthquakes are observed in the vicinity of Maui and Molokai, including some located at mantle depths. A small number of microearthquakes are found to occur near Oahu. There is no evidence from our analyses that the Molokai fracture zone (MFZ) is seismically active at this time, and no evidence was found of a previously hypothesized Diamond Head fault (DHF) near Oahu. However, on the basis of both the PLUME and HVO locations, there is a northeast–southwest–trending swath of epicenters extending northeastward of Oahu that may indicate the locus of moderate-sized historic earthquakes attributed to the Oahu region. VL - 101 UR - https://doi.org/10.1785/0120100271 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Structure of young East Pacific Rise lithosphere from ambient noise correlation analysis of fundamental- and higher-mode Scholte-Rayleigh waves JF - Nouveaux développements de l’imagerie et du suivi temporel à partir du bruit sismique Y1 - 2011 A1 - Yao, Huajian A1 - Gouédard, Pierre A1 - Collins, John A. A1 - McGuire, Jeffrey J. A1 - van der Hilst, Robert D. KW - ambient noise KW - Bruit ambiant KW - Dorsale Est Pacifique KW - East Pacific Rise KW - Fundamental- and higher-mode Scholte-Rayleigh waves KW - Lithosphere KW - Low-velocity zone KW - Manteau océanique supérieur KW - Modes fondamental et supérieur des ondes de Scholte-Rayleigh KW - Oceanic Uppermost Mantle KW - Zone de faible vitesse AB - Inter-station Green's functions estimated from ambient noise studies have been widely used to investigate crustal structure. However, most studies are restricted to continental areas and use fundamental-mode surface waves only. In this study, we recover inter-station surface (Scholte-Rayleigh) wave empirical Green's function (EGFs) of both the fundamental- and the first-higher mode using one year of continuous seismic noise records on the vertical component from 28 ocean bottom seismographs deployed in the Quebrada/Discovery/Gofar transform faults region on the East Pacific Rise. The average phase-velocity dispersion of the fundamental mode (period band 2–30s) and the first-higher mode (period band 3–7s) from all EGFs are used to invert for the 1-D average, shear-velocity structure in the crust and uppermost mantle using a model-space search algorithm. The preferred shear-velocity models reveal low velocities (4.29km/s) between Moho and 25km depth below sea-surface, suggesting the absence of a fast uppermost mantle lid in this young (0–2Myr) oceanic region. An even more pronounced low-velocity zone, with shear velocities ∼3.85km/s, appears at a depth between 25–40km below sea-surface. Along with previous results, our study indicates that the shear velocity in the uppermost oceanic mantle increases with increasing seafloor age, consistent with age-related lithospheric cooling. Résumé Les fonctions de Green estimées à partir de l’analyse du bruit ambiant ont beaucoup été utilisées pour étudier la structure de la croûte terrestre. La plupart de ces travaux sont toutefois limités aux zones continentales, et ne considèrent que le mode fondamental des ondes de surface. Dans cette étude, les fonctions de Green empiriques (EGFs) du mode fondamental et du premier mode supérieur des ondes de surface (Scholte-Rayleigh) sont reconstruites à partir d’une année d’enregistrements continus de la composante verticale du bruit sismique sur 28 ocean bottom seismometers (OBSs) déployés dans la région des failles transformantes Quebrada/Discovery/Gofar, le long de la dorsale océanique du Pacifique Est. La dispersion moyenne des vitesses de phase du mode fondamental (dans la bande de période 2–30s) et du premier mode supérieur (dans la bande 3–7s), issus des EGFs, est utilisée pour déterminer un modèle moyen 1D de la vitesse des ondes de cisaillement dans la croûte et le manteau supérieur à partir d’un algorithme de recherche dans l’espace modèle. Le modèle de vitesse des ondes de cisaillement résultant présente une couche de faible vitesse (4,29km/s) entre le Moho et 25km sous le niveau de la mer, ce qui suggère l’absence de couche superficielle rapide dans le manteau supérieur de cette jeune région océanique (0–2millions d’années). Une zone de faible vitesse encore plus prononcée, avec une vitesse de cisaillement de ∼3,85km/s, apparaît entre 25 et 40km sous le niveau de la mer. Combinée avec des résultats antérieurs, notre étude montre que la vitesse de cisaillement dans le manteau océanique supérieur augmente avec l’âge du fond océanique, ce qui est en accord avec le refroidissement dans le temps de la lithosphère. VL - 343 UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631071311000952 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Underplating of the Hawaiian Swell: evidence from teleseismic receiver functions JF - Geophysical Journal International Y1 - 2010 A1 - Leahy, Garrett M. A1 - Collins, John A. A1 - Wolfe, Cecily J. A1 - Laske, Gabi A1 - Solomon, Sean C. AB - The Hawaiian Islands are the canonical example of an age-progressive island chain, formed by volcanism long thought to be fed from a hotspot source that is more or less fixed in the mantle. Geophysical data, however, have so far yielded contradictory evidence on subsurface structure. The substantial bathymetric swell is supportive of an anomalously hot upper mantle, yet seafloor heat flow in the region does not appear to be enhanced. The accumulation of magma beneath pre-existing crust (magmatic underplating) has been suggested to add chemical buoyancy to the swell, but to date the presence of underplating has been constrained only by local active-source experiments. In this study, teleseismic receiver functions derived from seismic events recorded during the PLUME project were analysed to obtain a regional map of crustal structure for the Hawaiian Swell. This method yields results that compare favourably with those from previous studies, but permits a much broader view than possible with active-source seismic experiments. Our results indicate that the crustal structure of the Hawaiian Islands is quite complicated and does not conform to the standard model of sills fed from a central source. We find that a shallow P-to-s conversion, previously hypothesized to result from the volcano-sediment interface, corresponds more closely to the boundary between subaerial and subaqueous extrusive material. Correlation between uplifted bathymetry at ocean-bottom-seismometer locations and presence of underplating suggests that much of the Hawaiian Swell is underplated, whereas a lack of underplating beneath the moat surrounding the island of Hawaii suggests that underplated crust outward of the moat has been fed from below by dykes through the lithosphere rather than by sills spreading from the island centre. Local differences in underplating may reflect focusing of magma-filled dykes in response to stress from volcanic loading. Finally, widespread underplating adds chemical buoyancy to the swell, reducing the amplitude of a mantle thermal anomaly needed to match bathymetry and supporting observations of normal heat flow. VL - 183 UR - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04720.x ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Mantle Shear-Wave Velocity Structure Beneath the Hawaiian Hot Spot JF - Science Y1 - 2009 A1 - Wolfe, Cecily J. A1 - Solomon, Sean C. A1 - Laske, Gabi A1 - Collins, John A. A1 - Detrick, Robert S. A1 - Orcutt, John A. A1 - Bercovici, David A1 - Hauri, Erik H. AB - Defining the mantle structure that lies beneath hot spots is important for revealing their depth of origin. Three-dimensional images of shear-wave velocity beneath the Hawaiian Islands, obtained from a network of sea-floor and land seismometers, show an upper-mantle low-velocity anomaly that is elongated in the direction of the island chain and surrounded by a parabola-shaped high-velocity anomaly. Low velocities continue downward to the mantle transition zone between 410 and 660 kilometers depth, a result that is in agreement with prior observations of transition-zone thinning. The inclusion of SKS observations extends the resolution downward to a depth of 1500 kilometers and reveals a several-hundred-kilometer-wide region of low velocities beneath and southeast of Hawaii. These images suggest that the Hawaiian hot spot is the result of an upwelling high-temperature plume from the lower mantle. VL - 326 UR - https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.1180165 N1 - Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science ER -