Information Center (OPIC). Software was provided by Schlumberger (Petrel), LMKR (GeoGraphix), IHS (Petra), SAS (JMP Pro), and Paradigm (GEOLOG). I thank Dr. Matthew Pranter for his assistance with Petrel and 3-D modeling, mentorship, advice, and encouragement. I thank Dr. Fnu Suriamin for assistance with GEOLOG and ρmaa-Umaa analysis, Dr. Dean Richmond for his guidance and assistance with GeoGraphix and welllog normalization, Dr. Bill Full for his guidance and assistance with unsupervised machine learning, Dr. Jean-Yves Chatellier for his assistance with a short drill-cuttings "chip size" study, Dr. Bryan Turner for his guidance regarding elemental data, and Anna Turnini for her assistance with GeoGraphix and Petrel software.Thank you to my mother, my father, and my sister Alia for all that you do, for all of your love and encouragement, and for always being my home. Thank you to my fiancé Dakota for your love and support, and for enduring this journey with me. I also thank my friends for their support, encouragement, and companionship throughout graduate school. Finally, a large thank you to God for this challenging and amazing opportunity, and for all of the valuable lessons it has taught me.
The Taranaki Basin is located offshore, west of North Island, New Zealand. Within the study area, deepwater channel systems are present as a result of plate boundary movement and clastic deposition during the Plio-Pleistocene. Multiattribute analysis revealed a few interesting features that were identified and interpreted. After refining the horizon of focus, some interpretations were concluded as noise, while others were confirmed as geological deposits: (FLT 1) A high energy and high sweetness response along the northwestern portion of the main channel body was interpreted as a sand-rich levee deposit and (FLT 2) scalloping and elongate finger-like geometries were interpreted as noise.
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