Modern sedimentation on the eastern continental shelf of India: Assessing the provenance and sediment dispersal pattern

Sediments deposited on the eastern continental shelf of India are studied for texture, mineralogy and their major, trace, and rare earth elemental composition in lithogenic fraction. The objective of this study was to identify the sources, and evaluate the factors affecting the erosion and weathering in the catchment area and dispersal and deposition of sediments over the shelf region. Here, we present an extensive dataset covering the entire eastern continental shelf of India from the Ganges-Brahmaputra (G-B) basin in the north including the shelf off major peninsular Indian river basins of Mahanadi, Godavari, and Krishna up to the Kaveri basin in the southern tip.