[DOC] [TLE] Introduction to Ocean Sciences, 2e - WW Norton & Company [PAR] Sediments accumulate in layers on the seafloor and, in doing so, preserve a .... 
by four rivers: the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and the Irrawaddy empty into the Bay of 
Bengal, ... sediment deposits extend to the deep sea floor in the form of abyssal 
fans. ... inject hundreds of cubic kilometers of pulverized rock into the atmosphere
. [DOC] [TLE] Submarine canyon - Wikipedia [PAR] A submarine canyon is a steep-sided valley cut into the seabed of the continental 
slope, sometimes extending well ... Turbidity currents travel down slope at great 
speed (as much as 70 km/hr), eroding the ... Some may extend seawards across 
continental shelves for hundreds of kilometres before reaching the abyssal plain. [DOC] [TLE] Bay of Bengal | bay, Indian Ocean | Britannica.com [PAR] The fan of sediments of the Ganges River is the widest5 to 7 miles (8 to 11 km)
and ... can fall to nearly half that level and can extend well south of the bay 
during the fall. Below the surface layer is an oxygen-poor intermediate layer that 
has high ... 7:023 Geography: Think of Something Big, globe showing Africa, 
Europe,. [DOC] [TLE] Ganges cone A wide angle seismic reflection and refraction study [PAR] Dec 10, 1973 ... the 6.22-km/sec layer is estimated at 7.87 km. ... (formerly East Pakistan) where 
they empty is drained into the Bay of Bengal forms a wide. [DOC] [TLE] international tribunal for the law of the sea tribunal international du ... [PAR] land mass into the Bay of Bengal; and finally, I will introduce the technical 
provisions. 46 .... by forerunners of the great Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers. .... 
layers of sediment which have been estimated to be as much as 24 km thick. ...... 
expanse of the Bengal Fan that extends as an immense apron of sediment 
hundreds. 2. [DOC] [TLE] Ganges Cone: A Wide Angle Seismic Reflection and Refraction Study [PAR] The average total thickness of the sediment up to the 6.22-km/sec layer is ... 
Ganges Cone suggests that the base of the sediment may extend into Upper 
Cretaceous. ... the Ganges in Bangla Desh The huge amount of sediment load 
that (formerly ... a wide into the Bay of Bengal. sedimentary fan called the Bengal 
Fan or the... [DOC] [TLE] The potential for giant tsunamigenic earthquakes in the northern Bay ... [PAR] Sep 6, 2007 ... Here I show that similar indicators suggest a high potential for giant earthquakes 
... sediment layer on the upper surface of the subducting plate, the northern Bay 
of ... The thickness of the Bengal Fan sediments reaches up to 20 km (ref. ... times 
of large thrust earthquakes might be only a few hundred years. [DOC] [TLE] Floods in Bangladesh: Possible Causes and Solutions - ICIMOD [PAR] Nov 12, 2007 ... Most deltas subside due to the weight of the thick sediment layer. ... Riverbed 
aggradation is most pronounced for the Ganges and its distributaries. .... include 
flash floods, possible shifts in river courses, loss of a huge land area to ... fan (
Bengal Fan), which extends more than 3,000 km south into the Bay of... [DOC] [TLE] Multidisciplinary investigations exploring indicators of gas hydrate ... [PAR] major rivers (Ganges, Brahmaputra, Mahanadi, Krishna, Godavari and Cauvery) 
and minor tributaries transporting huge amounts of sediments into the Bay of 
Bengal .... extending up to 1604 N between 8154 and 8210 E, (2) a fan-
like ... There is evidence of faulting in the subsurface layers, with a throw of about
... [DOC] [TLE] Water Science Photos: Satellite views, USGS - U.S. Geological Survey [PAR] Tan-colored sediment is flowing into the Gulf from the Mississippi River, ... These 
are huge events which can easily be seen from space. ... The same thing 
occurred all along the Atlantic coast for hundreds of miles ... Over millennia, ice 
has carved out deep fjords leaving fringes of land that extend like fingers into the 
ocean,... [DOC] [TLE] Comparisons of the kinematics and deep structures of the Zagros [PAR] more recent and Arabia penetrates

Question: The Ganges Fan, a massive layer of sediment, extends hundreds of miles into this bay
Answer: Bay of Bengal