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Benue River (French: la Bénoué), previously known as the Chadda River or Tchadda, is the major tributary of the Niger River. [2] The size of its catchment basin is 319,000 km 2 (123,000 sq mi). Almost its entire length of approximately 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) is navigable during the summer months.
21 wrz 2024 · Benue River, river in western Africa, longest tributary of the Niger, about 673 miles (1,083 km) in length. It rises in northern Cameroon as the Bénoué at about 4,400 feet (1,340 metres) and, in its first 150 miles (240 km), descends more than 2,000 feet (600 metres) over many falls and rapids, the.
1 sty 1989 · The tectonic evolution of the Benue Trough was closely controlled by transcurrent faulting through an axial fault system, developing local compressional and tensional regimes and resulting in basins and basement horsts along releasing and restraining bends of the faults.
13 paź 2017 · A review of high impact literature on the Southern Benue Trough and Anambra Basin was undertaken to enhance the understanding and definition of the basins in terms of their evolution, area...
6 gru 2023 · Introduction. The Nigerian Benue trough is an intra-continental rift basin during the Cretaceous period 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. The trough continues inland from the petroleum-bearing Niger Delta...
Nigerians is the area of the Benue-Cross river watershed from where, according to the theories of Joseph Greenberg, the ancestors of the Bantu-speakers of Africa set off in their successful bid to conquer and tame the entire southern
6 lut 2021 · However, this chapter focuses on discussing the regional geology and geodynamics, tectonic evolution and basinal stratigraphic fills of the basins in Afikpo area, which harbours the lithostratigraphic units of two different basins namely; Southern Benue Trough and Anambra Basin.