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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.
1 mar 2024 · There are three possible potential metal sources for the Benue Trough metallogenic province; mantled-derived rocks of the Mesozoic-Cenozoic magmatism, the Cretaceous ore-bearing sedimentary rocks and the Precambrian basement rocks.
1 sty 1989 · They generally outcrop in the core of the main anticline structures (Abakallki Anticlinorium of the Lower Benue Trough), Albian rocks are represented by the Asu River Group, which consists of alternating shales and sfltstones with occurrences of sandstone (Simpson 1954).
21 wrz 2024 · Some 250 miles (400 km) downstream from Timbuktu, a rocky ridge that obstructs the course of the river is pierced by a defile (narrow gorge) more than a mile long, with an average width of about 800 feet (240 metres) and a depth of more than 100 feet (30 metres) in places.
22 kwi 2020 · Rocks associated with lowlands. The coastal plain: Sedimentary rocks of alluvial deposit. Niger – Benue trough: Sedimentary rocks such as limestone, sandstone and shale. Sokoto plain: Sedimentary rocks like sand, clay, sandstone and limestone. Chad basin: Sedimentary rocks of sand and clay.
Jej źródła leżą na Wyżynie Adamawa w północnym Kamerunie, skąd płynąc na zachód przecina Garoua, wpływa do Nigerii i przechodząc przez Yolę, Ibi i Makurdi, wpada do Nigru w Lokoji. W jej górnym biegu znajduje się Park Narodowy Benue.
1 sty 1985 · The Benue Trough is characterised by some degree of continuity of palaeontological zonation within the marine formations, a series of long narrow folds with ENE-WSW axes, and a narrow zone of lead-zinc mineralisation with associated intrusions which runs from Abakaliki to Zurak (Cratchley and Jones, 1965).
