EVALUATION OF SOIL CORROSIVITY AT UNGWAN-MAIGERO, CHIKUN LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KADUNA STATE
Keywords:
Conductance and Profiling, Corrosivity, Soil, Wenner ArrayAbstract
Horizontal profiling were carried out within Ungwan-Magerio, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State along eight (8) horizontal profiles using the Wenner array was conducted within the study area, in the NW-SE direction with longitude of 10º
29"250 N and latitude of 07º26"855 E at 582m elevation with profile length of 150 m and electrode spacing of 5 m each. Ohmega resistivity meter was used to acquire these data and interpreted using RES1DINV 1.00.07 and Oasis Montaj software. The longitudinal
conductance of the study area ranges from 0.001mhos to 0.8mhos. The corrosivity rating shows 42% practically non-corrosive, 16% moderately corrosive, 37% slightly corrosive and 5% very strongly corrosive. The soil corrosivity was relatively high in profile 6, which
represent 5% of the samples showed very st ongly corrosive property.
Downloads
References
Basher, I. Y. and Main, R. (2014). Vertical Electrical Sounding Investigation of Aquifer Composition and Its Potential to yield Groundwater in Some Selected Towns in Bida Basin of North Central Nigerian. Journal of Geography and Geology .6(1).
Utom, A. U. Odoh, B. I. and Okoro, A. U. (2012). Estimation of Aquifer Transmissivity Using Dar Zarrouk Parameters Derived from Surface Resistivity Measurements. A Case History from Part of Enugu Town (Nigeria) Journal of Water Resource and Protection.
Akintorinwa O J and Abiola O (2011) sub-soil evaluation for pre-foundation study geophysical and geo-technical approach J emerging trends eng app; sic. 2(5) 858-863.
Maillet, R.(1947) The fundamental equations of electrical prospecting. Geophysics, 12,529-556. Nigeria”. Unpublished M.Sc Thesis, Department of Geological Science, Nnamdi
Adeka, Afuwai and Dogara J. of NAMP Zohdy A.A R(1989) A new method for the automatic interpretation of Schlumberger sounding curves, Geophysics Vol 54, No 2, pp 245-253
Isaac O. Olaniyan (2020) Estimation of Aquifer protective capacity, soil corrosivity and Dar-Zarrouk parameters in kaura area of Kaduna state. Journal of engineering research and science
Udo, P. O. (1982). Physical Geography of Nigerian Heineman Education Publishers Ibadan. Parasnis D.S (1986). Principles of applied geophysics. 4 th Edition, chapman and hall, London, vol. 360,104-116.
Osele, C.E. (2012). “Application of Electrical Resistivity Method Using Vertical Electrical Sounding.
Afuwai Gwazah Cyril (2013). Understanding the basics of electrical resistivity Geophysical survey, federal university Dutsin-ma Nigeria. Lambert Academic Publishing.
Dogara, M.D. (1995). D.C Resistivity Investigation of the Groundwater potential in Romi Chikun local government Kaduna State, Nigeria unpublished MSC thesis Ahmadu BelowUniversity Zaria.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2023 The Journals of the Nigerian Association of Mathematical Physics
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
