Biotic and abiotic organisms in the marine habitat erode particle fragments that are accu- mulated in strategic locations, called environments of deposition, characterized by the structure of the topography and the ocean dynamics. Thin sediments, useful to obtain high-quality sedimenta- ry information, are generally accumulated in areas favoring the continuous deposition of sediments. These environments are characterized by the morphology of the marine topography and the behavior of certain external agents such as hydrodynamic energy, winds, marine currents, and so on. Knowl- edge of these areas offers significant contributions for the development of in situ geological work and it is the basis for research studies in the northern Humboldt Current System (HCS) in Peru, which is the marine ecosystem with the most extreme conditions and unknowns. Therefore, in order to predict the location of continuous deposition environments in Peruvian Continental Margin, the presence of continuous deposition environments are modeled spatially based on the morphology and bathymetry characteristics. In the study, high-resolution grids of bathymetry and likely continuous deposition environments were obtained. The logistic kriging model confirms the association between continuous deposition environments and morphological characteristics of the seabed such as depth, slope, distance to the coast, among others.

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Keywords:

Bathymetry, continuous sedimentation environments, geostatistics, kriging, morphology, spatial correlation..
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