Indus Fan

The Indus Fan is an abyssal fan system in the northern Arabian Sea, created by the discharge of sediment from the simultaneous accretion and erosion of the Indus River Delta coastline, alongside significant turbidity at the river's various exit channels along the southern Sindhi coastline of Pakistan. It is one of the most significant depositional feature of the offshore Arabian Basin. It is the second largest fan system, and abyssal fan system in the world after the Bengal Fan between India, Bangladesh and the Andaman Islands. The Indus fan was deposited in an unconfined setting on the continental slope, rise and basin floor, covering a significant portion of the northern Arabian Sea. The entire fan extends over an area of 110,000 square kilometers with greater than 9 km of sediment accumulating near the top-of-slope.