Clift, Peter D; Shimizu, Nobumichi; Layne, Graham D; Blusztajn, Jerzy S; Gaedicke, Christoph; Schlüter, Hans-Ulrich; Clark, M K; Amjad, Shahid (2001): Nd and Pb isotope data for DSDP and ODP sediments from the Bengal Fan [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.717745, Supplement to: Clift, PD et al. (2001): Development of the Indus Fan and its significance for the erosional history of the Western Himalaya and Karakoram. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 113(8), 1039-1051, https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(2001)113%3C1039:DOTIFA%3E2.0.CO;2
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Abstract:
Correlation of new multichannel seismic profiles across the upper Indus Fan and Murray Ridge with a dated industrial well on the Pakistan shelf demonstrates that ~40% of the Indus Fan predates the middle Miocene, and ~35% predates uplift of the Murray Ridge (early Miocene, ~22 Ma). The Arabian Sea, in addition to the Makran accretionary complex, was therefore an important repository of sediment from the Indus River system during the Paleogene. Channel and levee complexes are most pronounced after the early Miocene, coincident with an increase in sedimentation rates. Middle Eocene sandstones from Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 224 on the Owen Ridge yield K-feldspars whose Pb isotopic composition, measured by in situ ion microprobe methods, indicates an origin in, or north of, the Indus suture zone. This observation requires that India-Asia collision had occurred by this time and that an Indus River system, feeding material from the suture zone into the basin, was active soon after collision. Pleistocene provenance was similar to that during the Eocene, albeit with greater contribution from the Karakoram. A mass balance of the erosional record on land with deposition in the fan and associated basins suggests that only ~40% of the Neogene sediment in the fan is derived from the Indian plate.
Project(s):
Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP)
Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 16.342963 * Median Longitude: 60.196833 * South-bound Latitude: 16.130700 * West-bound Longitude: 59.701700 * North-bound Latitude: 16.541800 * East-bound Longitude: 60.744000
Date/Time Start: 1972-04-05T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1987-10-09T16:45:00
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23-224 * Latitude: 16.541800 * Longitude: 59.701700 * Date/Time: 1972-04-05T00:00:00 * Elevation: -2500.0 m * Penetration: 792 m * Recovery: 30.9 m * Location: Indian Ocean/Arabian Sea/RIDGE * Campaign: Leg23 * Basis: Glomar Challenger * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 9 cores; 81 m cored; 18 m drilled; 38.1 % recovery
117-720A * Latitude: 16.130700 * Longitude: 60.744000 * Date/Time Start: 1987-08-29T11:15:00 * Date/Time End: 1987-09-02T21:00:00 * Elevation: -4045.0 m * Penetration: 414.3 m * Recovery: 89.41 m * Location: Arabian Sea * Campaign: Leg117 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 43 cores; 414.3 m cored; 0 m drilled; 21.6 % recovery
117-731A * Latitude: 16.470500 * Longitude: 59.702500 * Date/Time Start: 1987-10-01T07:30:00 * Date/Time End: 1987-10-04T00:45:00 * Elevation: -2371.0 m * Penetration: 409 m * Recovery: 359.28 m * Location: Arabian Sea * Campaign: Leg117 * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 43 cores; 409 m cored; 0 m drilled; 87.8 % recovery
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- Clift, PD; Shimizu, N; Layne, GD et al. (2001): (Table 1) Nd isotope composition of fine-grained clay minerals from sediments of the Bengal Fan. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.717739
- Clift, PD; Shimizu, N; Layne, GD et al. (2001): (Table 2) Pb isotope composition of K-feldspars from sediments of the Bengal Fan. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.717743