Indus Fan

[1] The Indus fan was deposited in an unconfined setting on the continental slope, rise and basin floor, covering much of the Arabian Sea.

The entire fan extends over an area of 110,000 square kilometers with greater than 9 km of sediment accumulating near the toe-of-slope.

[4] Fan sedimentation is estimated to have begun at the end of the Oligocene or beginning of the Miocene, during a period of faster Himalayan exhumation, possibly linked to Monsoon intensification.

[1] These channel-levee systems act as conduits for carrying and depositing sediments into the deeper part of the basin.

This arrangement of sediments is ideal for stratigraphic plays and is why these channel-levee systems are important to the petroleum industry.