Saka Adelayo Opeloye

The Turonian Marine Incursion and the Trans-Saharan Seaway: A Critical Synthesis of the Nigerian Benue Trough Record

Saka Adelayo Opeloye & Osazuwa Abifade Ogbahon · Asian Journal of Geological Research · 2026

The Benue Trough of Nigeria preserves one of the most extensively documented onshore records of the Cenomanian–Turonian marine transgression that is widely held to have linked the South Atlantic and the Tethys Sea across the West African craton, an episode commonly termed the Tra...