Vertical Electrical Sounding Investigation in East River Nile Area (Khartoum State), Sudan

Vertical electrical sounding (VES) was carried out in the east of the River Nile.The main objectives of the resistivity survey are to determine the types and thicknesses of sedimentary units in the area, to define the contact separating the sediments from the crystalline basement complex, and to determine the structural features of the subsurface formations.Several local depressions, whose maximum depth to the basement surface is about160m, are revealed as an outcome of the VES method, and suggested to have been infilled with undifferentiated units of the Nubian Group in particular Omdurman Formation.Thus, a depth to the basement complex is calculated and the associated structural map of the east of the River Nile is drawn.The map is useful for the groundwater drilling, as far as the presence or absence of the aquifer is concerned.