Many hierarchical schemes have been developed to describe multiple-scale cut-and-fill architecture of deep-water channel systems and analyse their evolution. A widely applicable genetical-based scheme is not on the horizon yet. Near seismic-scale exposures of two deep-water channel systems from the late Miocene of the Transylvanian Basin, Romania offer a fresh insight into the dynamics of erosional and depositional processes. Both channel systems are underlain by mudstone-prone successions; the channel-complex scale incisional surface can only be observed at Tău. Channel-form surfaces interpreted as the base of channel elements and storeys are present in both outcrops. At Tău, the shallow, base-of-slope channel complex consists of amalgamated sandstones separated by thin mudstones. The axis of the deep, slope channel at Daia is characterized by pebble lags, thick amalgamated sandstones that thin towards the margin, and thin mudstones. Backsets, possible cyclic steps, and erosional features, such as rip-up mud-boulders, detachment edges, and ghost bedding also occur. Cycles of incision, bypass with coarse lag accumulation, deposition from gravelly then sandy turbidity currents were repeated numerous times with differing amplitudes, which were followed by the abandonment of the channel complex. Novel incision-infill graphs were created to analyse and compare the cyclicity pattern of deep-water channels. Successive incision depth of channel-form surfaces, and infill height of channel-form bodies aids in distinguishing hierarchical levels, vertical and lateral offsets. Daia and Tău channel complexes show a remarkably similar cyclicity pattern, which might indicate an inherent character of this turbidite system. To investigate whether this pattern is universal, incision-infill graphs of two Laingsburg Karoo channel systems were constructed, based on published data. In all the four examples, a pattern of lateral-then-vertical offset of channel elements was present, and a similarity between channel element-complex and channel storey-element aggradation was found, suggesting a fractal behaviour. Two models are applicable to interpret the revealed pattern of incision-infill graphs, for the Tău and Daia channels: 1) three scales of waxing-waning flow magnitude cyclicity could create the architecture of channel complexes, or 2) the presence of autocyclic channel element incision-infill could eliminate one scale of flow magnitude changes, but two still need to be governed by allocyclic factors. The late Miocene turbidite system in the Transylvanian Basin developed in Lake Pannon, in close relationship with the uplifting Carpathians fringing the basin. As the duration of cycles is shorter than the time range of possible changes in uplift rate or fault activity, tectonically induced cyclicity is discarded. Climatically induced cycles are the most probable controls on varying the flow magnitude that created the complex architecture of channel systems in this lacustrine setting.

已经开发出许多分层方案来描述深水航道系统的多尺度挖填结构并分析其发展。尚未广泛应用基于遗传的计划。罗马尼亚特兰西瓦尼亚盆地中新世晚期的两个深水航道系统的近地震规模暴露，为侵蚀和沉积过程的动力学提供了新的见识。这两个渠道系统都以泥岩易发的演替为基础。通道复杂的切面只能在Tău观察到。在这两个露头中都存在被解释为河道元素和层的基础的河道形式的表面。在塔乌（Tău），浅层的坡底河道综合体由被薄砂岩分隔的混合砂岩组成。深处的轴心 大亚（Daia）的斜坡通道的特征是卵石滞后，向边缘变薄的厚的混合砂岩和稀薄的泥岩。还会出现回弹，可能的循环台阶和侵蚀性特征，例如裂开的巨石，分离边缘和重影层理。切口的循环，绕过粗略的滞后积累，从砾石沉积到含沙的浑浊流以不同的幅度重复了无数次，然后放弃了河道复合体。创建了新的切口填充图，以分析和比较深水通道的周期性模式。通道状表面的连续切入深度和通道状体的填充高度有助于区分等级，垂直和横向偏移。Daia和Tău通道复合体显示出非常相似的周期性模式，这可能表明该浊度系统的固有特性。为了研究这种模式是否通用，基于已发布的数据，构造了两个Laingsburg Karoo通道系统的切口填充图。在所有四个示例中，存在通道元素横向-垂直-垂直偏移的模式，并且发现通道元素复合体和通道层元素聚合之间存在相似性，这表明它具有分形行为。对于Tău和Daia通道，可以使用两种模型来解释切入图的显示模式：1）三种逐渐减弱的流量幅度周期性尺度可以创建通道复合体的体系结构，或者2）自循环通道元素的存在切口填充可以消除一种程度的血流变化，但是仍然需要用异环素因子来控制两种。特兰西瓦尼亚盆地晚中新世浊积系统在潘农湖发展，与盆地边缘的喀尔巴阡山脉隆升密切相关。由于周期的持续时间短于抬升速率或断层活动可能发生变化的时间范围，因此构造上的周期性就不存在了。气候变化引起的循环是改变流量大小的最可能的控制因素，在这种湖泊环境下，这种流量造成了通道系统的复杂结构。