GEOLOGY OF AMA-EKPU AND ENVIRONS

📄 Project Abstract

In the northern Benue trough, where the climate and the nature of the sedimentary units allow for geologic studies, which in turn help to provide field evidence supporting the view of the Benue Trough as proposed by Benkheli (1982) and later by Guiraud (1993) which explains that The Benue trough is taught to be as a collection of pull apart basins related to transcurrent or strike-slip movement along deep-seated basement shear zones of Pan African origin reactivated as oceanic transform faults. the fine grained nature of most of the units and the dense vegetation as a result of a wet tropical climate in the southern Benue Trough have hindered field studies and created a missing link in the proper explanation of the structural framework of the basin. Afikpo Basin is located in the southern Benue Trough, between the Abakaliki Anticlinorium running northeast and the Cameroon line in the southeast (Okonkwo 2014). It forms part of the lower Benue Trough and the adjacent Anambra basin. Sedim...