Bay of Bengal
Circulation in the Bay of Bengal is clockwise during the northwest monsoon, with a westward flow in the main ocean. This flow reverses during the southwest monsoon. The northern half of the bay is underlain by the Ganges Fan, a thick cone of sediment extending from the continental rise across the abyssal plain. This is the fastest-accumulating sediment in the world, originating high in the Himalayas, and supplied by the Brahmaputra River and the Ganges.
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- Area 1.1 million square miles (2.9 million square km)
- Maximum Depth 15,400 ft (4,695 m)
- Inflows Ganges, Brahmapurta, Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna, Kaveri, Irrawaddy rivers