Subduction of rough seafloor facilitates sediment underplating beneath a low velocity prism

Andrew Gase1, Nathan L Bangs2, Harm J Van Avendonk1, Thomas Luckie3, Daniel H N Barker4, Dan Bassett4, Katrina Jacobs5, David A Okaya6, Stuart A Henrys4, Shuichi Kodaira7, Gou Fujie8, Yojiro Yamamoto9, Adrien F Arnulf10, Laura M Wallace11 and Demian M Saffer12, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Univ Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, (3)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (5)GNS Science-Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (6)Univ Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Research Institute for Marine Geodynamics, Yokohama, Japan, (8)R&D Center for Earthquake and Tsunami, JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan, (9)JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan, (10)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (11)University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States, (12)Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States