Suczek worked with Raymond V. Ingersoll (from the Department of Earth and Space Science at the University of California) in 1985 to publish their work in the Journal of Sedimentary Research on Petrology and provenance of Cenozoic sand from the Indus Cone and the Arabian Basin. The article describes the uplifted gneissic, sedimentary and metasedimentary terrane of the western Himalayas that was produced by the closing of the ocean between India and Asia. They were trying to test if the sand from the Arabian Basin was derived from the Himalayas to find out what petrographic characteristics were present. They then compared samples with the sand from the Bengal and Nicobar Fans. This comparison would help explain tectonic movements in the region from convergence and collision of India and Asia causing the Himalayan orogenic belt. In order to do this, they used samples from three of the Deep Sea Drilling Project's holes, counting the layers to find the Cenozoic sand.