The study area lies within the forearc of the Hikurangi margin in northern Wairarapa, North Island, New Zealand. Two elements of the forearc are described: the Tawhero Basin (which lies west of the trench slope break), and the eastern part of the forearc ridge (which lies west of the Tawhero Basin). In the Tawhero Basin the Neogene stratigraphic succession commences with the turbiditic Whakataki Formation, which is widespread in the east coast of Wairarapa. The overlying Coast Road Formation, Otaian to early Altonian in age, comprises Lower and Upper Mudstone Members separated by the Sandstone Member. In the Altonian, the turbiditic Greenhollows Formation was deposited, followed locally by deposition of the Tutaekuri Calcarenite. However, in the south, only the Takaritini Formation formed during the Altonian. The Settlement Road Formation, of late Altonian to early Lillburnian age, comprises Lower and Upper Mudstone Members, separated by the Sandstone Member. The formation largely crops out along the trend of the Waioakura Horst, which lies between the north-trending Breakdown and Glencoe Faults. During the late Altonian to the early Tongaporutuan, the turbiditic Tanawa Formation was deposited in two sub-basins which were separated by the Waioakura Horst. A local break in deposition during the late Waiauan was followed in the early Tongaporutuan by a marine transgression, during which the ng t Sandstone Member of the Ngarata Formation was deposited. Subsequently, but also in the early Tongaporutuan, the turbiditic part of the Pakowhai Formation formed near Waihoki. In the forearc ridge part of the study area, Late Cretaceous and Paleogene strata comprising the Whangai, Wanstead, and Weber Formation crop out near Pongaroa, and Early Cretaceous strata crop out near Tiraumea. Generally the oldest Neogene strata of the forearc ridge are the ngi Sandstone Member of the Ngarata Formation (although locally near Pongaroa the Coast Road and Tanawa Formations are present) followed, in the mid and late Tongaporutuan, by deposition of the ng 4 Mudstone Member. Turbidite deposition resumed during the Kapitean resulting in the Waihoki Formation. In the early Opoitian the northaggrading bathyal Saunders Siltstone was deposited. Tane
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