Paleodepositional environment and age of Kanawa Member of Pindiga Formation, Gongola Sub-basin, Northern Benue Trough, NE Nigeria: Sedimentological and palynological approach

Aliyu, Abdulkarim H.; Mamman, Y. D.; Abubakar, M.; Yandoka, Babangida M. Sarki; Jitong, John Shirputda; Shettima, B.

doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2017.06.023

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“…Renewed surge in the relative sea levels in the late Turonian transcending into the Coniacian and early Santonian brought about the deposition of the deep marine blue-black shales of the Fika Member, representing the youngest units of the Pindiga Formation [11], [18]. This marine transgression is accompanied by compressional tectonics in the mid-Santonian [19], as consequence of changing orientation of the displacement vectors between the African plate and European/Tethys plates [20]. This led to thrusting of the pre-Maastrichtian sequences towards the western regions of the Gongola Sub-basin, thus creating an accommodation for the evolution of the Campano-Maastrichtian regressive deposits of the Gombe Formation [21], [18].…”

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Fluvio-Deltaic Depositional Complex of the Campano-Maastrichtian Gombe Formation of the Gongola Sub-Basin, Northern Benue Trough, N.E. Nigeria

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2020

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Evaluation of the stratigraphic architecture of the Gombe Formation of the Gongola Sub-basin in the Northern Benue Trough indicated a build-up from six facies assemblage that consist of trough crossbedded sandstone, planar crossbedded sandstone, massive bedded sandstone, ripple laminated sandstone, parallel laminated sandstone and mudstones. These units were packaged into three facies association that constitutes of bedded sandstone facies association (FAgI), interbedded sandstone and mudstone facies association (FAgII) and amalgamated trough crossbedded sandstone facies association (FAgIII). These reflects mouth-bars, pro-delta and delta slope deposits and upper delta plain respectively. This deltaic prism is characterized by unidirectional current system devoid of signatures of tide and waves hydrodynamics in the subaqueous delta regions, thus indicating that the delta system of the Gombe Formation is a fluvial dominated delta.

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