Evolution of a Late Miocene Deep-Water Depositional System in the Southern Taranaki Basin, New Zealand

A long-standing problem in the understanding of deep-water turbidite reservoirs relates to how three-dimensional evolution channel systems evolve response filling on spatiotemporal scales, and depositional environments affect architecture. The 3-D structure temporal late Miocene complexes southern Taranaki Basin, New Zealand is investigated, geometry, distribution, stacking patterns are analyzed. Two recently acquired seismic datasets, Pipeline-3D (proximal) Hector-3D (distal) These surveys provide detailed imaging systems, allowing for assessment intricate geometry geomorphology systems. Seismic attributes resolve bodies associated architectural elements. Spectral decomposition, amplitude curvature, coherence reveal NW-trending straight low-sinuosity channels less prominent NE-trending high-sinuosity feeder channels. Stratal slices across datasets better characterize mapped transition from meandering patterns, likely caused by a change shelf-slope gradient due localized structural relief. Stacking facies within variation environment characterized sediment bypass vertically aggrading