<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The study presents an analysis of the sediment thickness compared with bathymetric and geophysical settings in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, Indian Ocean. It uses a combination of the high-resolution data: topographic GEBCO, satellite and marine gravity anomalies, EGM2008 geoid and GlobSed to visualize the correlation between relief, gravity and trends in continent-ocean sediment transport. The results include thematic maps and 3D model showing increased sediment thickness in the Bengal Fan (8,0 to 8,2 km) in NE direction with maximum in Ganges Fan (16,2 km), and southward decrease in the Andaman Sea from Irrawaddy river mouth (6-7 km) to the Strait of Malacca (1-2 km). All maps and 3D model have been plotted by Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) cartographic scripting toolset version 6.0.0.</p></abstract>

The study presents an analysis of the sediment thickness compared with bathymetric and geophysical settings in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, Indian Ocean. It uses a combination of the high-resolution data: topographic GEBCO, satellite and marine gravity anomalies, EGM2008 geoid and GlobSed to visualize the correlation between relief, gravity and trends in continent-ocean sediment transport. The results include thematic maps and 3D model showing increased sediment thickness in the Bengal Fan (8,0 to 8,2 km) in NE direction with maximum in Ganges Fan (16,2 km), and southward decrease in the Andaman Sea from Irrawaddy river mouth (6-7 km) to the Strait of Malacca (1-2 km). All maps and 3D model have been plotted by Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) cartographic scripting toolset version 6.0.0.

Sediment thickness in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea compared with topography and geophysical settings by GMT

Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences. Department of Natural Disasters

Anthropogenic Hazards and Seismicity of the Earth. Laboratory of Regional Geophysics and Natural Disasters (Nr. 303)

Ovidius University Annals of Constanta - Series Civil Engineering

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The study presents an analysis of the sediment thickness compared with bathymetric and geophysical settings in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, Indian Ocean....

Sediment thickness in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea compared with topography and geophysical settings by GMT

Published Online: Dec 31, 2020

Page range: 13 - 21

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ouacsce-2020-0002

Keywords
Andaman Sea, Bay of Bengal, cartography, sediment thickness

© 2020 Polina Lemenkova, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Sediment thickness in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea compared with topography and geophysical settings by GMT

Published Online: Dec 31, 2020

Page range: 13 - 21

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ouacsce-2020-0002

KeywordsAndaman Sea, Bay of Bengal, cartography, sediment thickness

© 2020 Polina Lemenkova, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Andaman Sea, Bay of Bengal, cartography, sediment thickness