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ABSTRACTThe stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Ajali Sandstone successions in Igbere area,Afikpo Basin were studied in order to determine plaeoenvironmental setting and sourcemodel of the deposits. The studied deposits consist of five lithofacies namely: pebblysandstone facies, cross-bedded, laminated, bioturbated sandstone facies and mudstonefacies. Paleoenvironmental interpretation based on facies associations and sedimentarystructures revealed tide-influenced fluvial deposits, while inferences from bivariate plotsof calculated univariate parameters indicated fluvial deposits. The granulometricanalyses of the sediments indicated a predominantly moderately sorted, medium-grainedsandstone with some poorly sorted populations. The kurtosis ranged from mesokurticthrough leptokurtic to extremely leptokurtic sand populations and generally with somesymmetrical, positive and negative skewness. This result is suggestive of a sandpopulation with different tails, especially for the facies representing the poorly sortedpopulations. The sandstone in the area is essentially quartz sandstone or quartz arenitebased on petrographic analysis. The relative abundance of the framework elements (Q96, F 0 and R 4) suggests super-mature sand with a maturity index 19.0. Themineralogical and textural maturity of the sandstone therefore, indicated a polycyclicdeposit. This together with the constituent heavy minerals and paleocurrent directionsinferred that sources of detritus were from both the uplifted continental pluton and old sedimentary domain, respectively. The Crystalline Basement rocks of both theCameroon and Adamawa Highlands, the Oban Massif and western Nigeria Ilesha Spuron the one hand and the Abakaliki Anticlinorium on the other hand both satisfied suchsource models for the post-Santonian Ajali quartz–sand deposit.

Paleoenvironment and Provenance Studies of Ajali Sandstone in Igbere Area, Afikpo Basin, Nigeria