Geosciences Working Group

lecturer: Prof. Dr. Elda Miramontes García
The deep sea often appears calm and still – but in reality, it can sometimes be quite turbulent. Enormous currents of water and sediment, known as turbidity currents, shape the seafloor and transport sand, silt, clay, and organic material over thousands of kilometres. This talk illustrates how these processes gave rise to the Bengal Fan – the largest sedimentary deposit on Earth, fed by sediments carried from the Himalayas to the sea via the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers.

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