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The fan was first identified by bathymetric survey in the sixties by Bruce C. Heezen and Marie Tharp which identified the abyssal cone and canyon structures. It was delineated and named by Joseph Curray and David Moore following a geological and geophysical survey in 1968.
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The fan completely covers the floor of the Bay of Bengal. It is bordered to the west by the continental slope of eastern India, to the north by the continental slope of
Bangladesh and to east by the northern part of
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Schwenk; Volkhard Spiess (2009). "Architecture and Stratigraphy of the Bengal Fan as Response to Tectonic and Climate Revealed from High-Resolution Seismic Data".
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Curray, Joseph R.; Frans J. Emmel; David G. Moore (December 2002). "The Bengal Fan: morphology, geometry, stratigraphy, history and processes".
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Curray, Joseph R.; David G. Moore (March 1971). "Growth of the Bengal Deep-Sea Fan and
Denudation in the Himalayas".
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age. Their mineralogical and geochemical characteristics confirm their
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Bathymetry of Bay of Bengal, with the submarine Bengal fan and submarine "Swatch of No Ground" Canyon
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from where it began. To date, the oldest sediments recovered from the Bengal fan are from
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152:Sunda Plate
96:West Bengal
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972:Categories
896:Categories
821:Malampuzha
806:Gosaikunda
791:Lake Powai
595:Bhagirathi
410:2011-09-16
203:References
144:subduction
88:Bangladesh
43:on Earth.
37:Ganges Fan
33:Bengal Fan
983:Sediments
957:Sri Lanka
930:Sri Lanka
919:Sri Lanka
710:Sarasvati
680:Mahananda
520:12°N 87°E
94:delta in
57:Himalayas
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953:Pakistan
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882:Palk Bay
771:Dal Lake
685:Mahaweli
675:Mahanadi
635:Ghaghara
620:Godavari
362:. SEPM (
189:dolphins
134:and the
120:Himalaya
112:latitude
90:and the
67:and the
59:and the
840:Coastal
715:Sankosh
695:Narmada
665:Krishna
625:Gandaki
615:Damodar
605:Chambal
580:Bagmati
434:Bibcode
330:Bibcode
230:Bibcode
162:History
146:of the
132:Myanmar
978:Ganges
941:Bhutan
740:Yamuna
730:Sutlej
720:Sharda
690:Meghna
655:Kaveri
645:Jhelum
630:Ganges
610:Chenab
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