Abstract:The Hikurangi margin offshore North Island, New Zealand (Figure 1a) conforms to most of the paradigms of subduction zones with high rates of terrigenous sedimentation (e.g., Moore & Karig, 1976;Underwood & Moore, 1995). The margin's bathymetric architecture includes a narrow shelf, forearc basins, imbricate thrusts and folds within the frontal accretionary prism, scattered slope basins, and through-going submarine canyons (Barnes
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