Recent Hydrological Change in the Rima Basin, Northern Nigeria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4614484 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D C Ledger (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1961 |
| Volume | 127 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 477 |
| Publication date | 1961-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1792801 |
| OpenAlex | W2063894518 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
in many parts of Northern Nigeria. Only recently, however, has any attempt been made to analyse the nature and causes of these changes, as such explanation requires information only obtainable by systematic hydrological investigations for which financial resources were hirtherto unavailable. In 1959, while undertaking a general survey of hydrological conditions in the Rima basin, Sokoto Province, the author found considerable evidence to support earlier reports that significant changes in river behaviour had taken place there in the past forty years. The Rima basin lies in the north-west of Nigeria, where the high plains of Hausaland slope gently northwards towards the desert (Fig. 1). Its major tributaries rise on the undulating surface of the main Niger-Chad-Kaduna watershed in the neighbourhood of Funtua (Fig. 2). Three of these?the Gagere, Bunsuru and Maradi?flow in
Cartography · Drainage basin · Geography · Geomorphology · Hydrology (agriculture · Physical geography · Structural basin · Water resource management · Environmental Science · Geology · Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies · Water resources management and optimization · Water Systems and Optimization
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 1992 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |