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Structure, Tectonics, and Geological History of the Northeastern Indian Ocean

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This paper is a summary and progress report of a study of the northeastern Indian Ocean, covering the areas of the Bengal and Nicobar Fans, the western Wharton Basin, the continental margins surrounding the Bay of Bengal, the Andaman Sea, the Andaman-Nicobar Ridge, the Sunda Arc off Sumatra and Java, and the adjacent land areas (Fig. 1). Bathymetry and topography of the study area are shown in Fig. 2. Combined, it is one structural province, extending from the Assam Valley on the northeast and the Ganges flood plain on the northwest, southward over oceanic crust to the distal ends of the Bengal and Nicobar Fans. This Mesozoic-Cenozoic structural basin will henceforth be referred to as the Bengal Geosyncline.

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Curray, J.R., Emmel, F.J., Moore, D.G., Raitt, R.W. (1982). Structure, Tectonics, and Geological History of the Northeastern Indian Ocean. In: Nairn, A.E.M., Stehli, F.G. (eds) The Ocean Basins and Margins. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8038-6_9

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