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Influence of mass transport deposit (MTD) surface topography on deep-water deposition: an example from a predominantly fine-grained continental margin, New Zealand

View ORCID ProfileSuzanne Bull, Greg H. Browne, Malcolm J. Arnot and View ORCID ProfileLorna J. Strachan
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 147-171, 28 April 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-192
Suzanne Bull
1GNS Science, 1 Fairway Drive, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, 5010
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Three-dimensional (3D) seismic data reveal the complex interplay between the surface topography of a c. 4405 km3 mass transport deposit (MTD) and overlying sedimentary packages over approximately the last two million years. The data image part of the Pleistocene to recent shelf to slope to basin-floor Giant Foresets Formation in offshore western New Zealand. The MTD created substantive topographic relief and rugosity at the contemporaneous seabed, formed by the presence of a shallow basal detachment surface, and very large (up to 200 m high) intact slide blocks, respectively. Sediments were initially deflected away from high-relief MTD topography and confined in low areas. With time, the MTD was progressively healed by a series of broadly offset-stacked and increasingly unconfined packages comprised of many channel bodies and their distributary complexes. Positive topography formed by the channels and their distributary complexes further modified the seafloor and influenced the location of subsequent sediment deposition. Channel sinuosity increased over time, interpreted as the result of topographic healing and reduced seafloor gradients. The rate of sediment supply is likely to have been non-uniform, reflecting tectonic pulses across the region. Sediments were routed into deep water via slope-confined channels that originated shortly before emplacement of the MTD.

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Influence of mass transport deposit (MTD) surface topography on deep-water deposition: an example from a predominantly fine-grained continental margin, New Zealand

Suzanne Bull, Greg H. Browne, Malcolm J. Arnot and Lorna J. Strachan
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 500, 147-171, 28 April 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP500-2019-192
Suzanne Bull
1GNS Science, 1 Fairway Drive, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, 5010
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