Atlas of deep water environments: architectural style in turbidite systems. Chapman and Hall, London, pp. 89-93.) revealed a distributary complex of large channel-levee systems radiating from the mouth of the Indus Canyon and lower-order distributary complexes, each consisting of several smaller channel-levee systems, on the middle Indus Fan. Sediment cores from the Indus Canyon and the middle Indus Fan are analysed in this study in order to reconstruct the timing of turbidite sedimentation on the fan. Sediment cores from the middle fan show that turbidite sedimentation of the last but one switched to the last and youngest channel-levee system at the transition from oxygen-isotope stage 3 to 2 (ฯณ24.8 14 C ka BP) and ceased during the last deglaciation (ฯณ11.5 14 C ka BP). The Indus Fan is subsequently draped by a calcareous ooze of approximately Holocene age. Turbidite sedimentation continued up to (sub)recent times within the main feeder channel and Indus Canyon. The geochemical, mineralogical and grainsize analyses suggest that the sediments deposited on the middle fan during the last glacial period were mainly supplied by the Indus River (fluvial sediments) while during the Holocene they were derived predominantly from the Arabian Peninsula (eolian dust). Although major erosional and depositional cycles on the Indus Fan are strongly controlled by changes in sea level, climate-induced differences in sediment supply and autocyclic mechanisms also influenced fan sedimentation.