Hemipelagic and turbiditic deposits constrain lower Bengal Fan depositional history through Pleistocene climate, monsoon, and sea level transitions

ME Weber, BT Reilly - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Bengal Fan contains the most complete record of Himalayan climate and
tectonics. As the largest fan system of the world it is fed by the Ganges-Brahmaputra river …

Allogenic and autogenic signals in the stratigraphic record of the deep-sea Bengal Fan

M Blum, K Rogers, J Gleason, Y Najman, J Cruz… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The Himalayan-sourced Ganges-Brahmaputra river system and the deep-sea
Bengal Fan represent Earth's largest sediment-dispersal system. Here we present detrital …

A synthesis of monsoon exploration in the Asian marginal seas

PD Clift, C Betzler, SC Clemens, B Christensen… - Scientific …, 2022 - sd.copernicus.org
The International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) conducted a series of expeditions
between 2013 and 2016 that were designed to address the development of monsoon …

Mid-Pleistocene climate transition drives net mass loss from rapidly uplifting St. Elias Mountains, Alaska

SPS Gulick, JM Jaeger, AC Mix… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Erosion, sediment production, and routing on a tectonically active continental margin reflect
both tectonic and climatic processes; partitioning the relative importance of these processes …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding Himalayan erosion and the significance of the Nicobar Fan

LC McNeill, B Dugan, J Backman, KT Pickering… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
A holistic view of the Bengal–Nicobar Fan system requires sampling the full sedimentary
section of the Nicobar Fan, which was achieved for the first time by International Ocean …

Petrology of Bengal Fan turbidites (IODP Expeditions 353 and 354): provenance versus diagenetic control

M Limonta, E Garzanti… - Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
High-resolution petrographic and heavy-mineral analyses of Bengal Fan turbidites from six
cores drilled during IODP Expeditions 353 and 354 elucidate factors controlling their …

Sustained wood burial in the Bengal Fan over the last 19 My

H Lee, V Galy, X Feng, C Ponton… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The Ganges–Brahmaputra (GB) River system transports over a billion tons of sediment
every year from the Himalayan Mountains to the Bay of Bengal and has built the world's …

A review of sand detachment in modern deep marine environments: Analogues for upslope stratigraphic traps

JW Counts, L Amy, A Georgiopoulou… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2021 - Elsevier
Isolated, detached sands provide opportunities for large-volume stratigraphic traps in many
deepwater petroleum systems. Here we provide a review of the different types of sandbody …

Sedimentology, stratigraphy and architecture of the Nicobar Fan (Bengal–Nicobar Fan System), Indian Ocean: results from international Ocean discovery program …

KT Pickering, H Pouderoux, LC McNeill… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Drill sites in the southern Bay of Bengal at 3° N 91° E (International Ocean Discovery
Program Expedition 362) have sampled for the first time a complete section of the Nicobar …

Comparing aggradation, superelevation, and avulsion frequency of submarine and fluvial channels

ZR Jobe, NC Howes, KM Straub, D Cai… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Constraining the avulsion dynamics of rivers and submarine channels is essential for
predicting the distribution of sediment, organic matter, and pollutants in alluvial, deltaic, and …