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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073The LBT comprises the Anambra Basin, the Abakaliki Anticlinorium and the Afikpo Syncline (Fig. 1). According to Offodile (1976) and Agumana (1989), the Asu River Group, situated within the Benue rift volcano-sedimentary system (Fig. 1), is the first sequencing in the Lower Benue Trough with limestones, shales, micaceous siltstones, …
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