Validity of an Empirical Rule for Delineating Aquifer Prospects at the Gidan Kwano Campus Development Phase II, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Northcentral Nigeria

Abstract

There exists an empirical rule to determine the likely presence of groundwater in a local Basement Complex geological province but there has not been an independent analytical approach to test this rule yet. Result from a 4km two-dimensional VES survey was analysed according to standard procedures and pseudosections along principal profiles were generated. From a handful of these pseudosections selected for this study, it is observed that the basis of this rule is true when aquifer delineation is aided by computer-assisted processing; thus, it is recommended that where the means to analyse VES data for small-scale surveys by computer software are not readily available, recourse to the “Geoexplore Empirical Standardisation for Minna Area” should be adopted when working in a Basement Complex province.