Fig. 4: Sediment texture and liquefaction potential.
From: Cascading hazards of a major Bengal basin earthquake and abrupt avulsion of the Ganges River
Grain-size distribution plot showing the shallow sands from borehole BNG-MS3 at the study site (Figs. 1, 3) and the average upper 30-m of Holocene sands and muds of the lower Bengal delta42. The range of grain-size distributions susceptible to liquefaction41,43,44 indicate that sands at the study site and across the lower Bengal basin are highly liquefiable.
