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Elevation

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The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character.

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Condition of being elevated; height; exaltation.

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That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station; as, an elevation of the ground; a hill.

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The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of the pole, or of a star.

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The angle which the style makes with the substylar line.

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The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line o/ sight; -- distinguished from direction.

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A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; -- called by the ancients the orthography.




Much of Nigeria's surface consists of ancient crystalline rocks of the African Shield. Having been subject to weathering and erosion for long periods, the characteristic landscape of this area is extensive level plains interrupted by occasional granite mountains. These features form a major landscape type of Nigeria and of West Africa as a whole. There are also smaller areas of younger granites found, for example, on the Jos Plateau (see fig. .

Sedimentary strata dating from various periods overlay the older rocks in many areas. The sedimentary areas typically consist of flat-topped ridges and dissected plateaus and a characteristic landscape of extensive plains and no major rocky outcrops. This landscape is generally true of the basins of the Niger and Benue rivers as well as the depressions of the Chad and Sokoto basins in the far northeast and northwest of the country, respectively. The most dramatic of the sedimentary landscapes are in southeastern Nigeria, where thick sedimentary beds from the Abakaliki Uplift to the Anambra Basin have been tilted and eroded. This process has resulted in a rugged scarp land topography with east-facing cliffs at in the Udi Hills, north of Enugu, and in the area around Nanka and Agulu.

Although relatively little of the Nigerian landscape has been shaped by volcanic episodes, there are two main areas of volcanic rock. They are found on the Biu Plateau in the northeast, extending into some localized volcanic areas along the eastern border with Cameroon, and on the Jos Plateau in the northern center of the country.

The elevational pattern of most of Nigeria consists of a gradual rise from the coastal plains to the northern savanna regions, generally reaching an elevation of 600 to 700 meters. Higher altitudes, reaching more than 1,200 meters in elevation, are found only in isolated areas of the Jos Plateau and in parts of the eastern highlands along the Cameroon border. The coastal plain extends inland for about ten kilometers and rises to an elevation of forty to fifty meters above sea level at its northern boundary. The eastern and western sections of the coastal plain are separated by the Niger Delta, which extends over an area of about 10,000 square kilometers. Much of this is swampland, separated by numerous islands. The coastal plain region penetrates inland about seventy-five kilometers in the west but extends farther in the east. This region is gently undulating with elevation increasing northward and a mean elevation of about 150 meters above sea level. Much of the population of southern Nigeria is located in these eastern and western coastal plains and in some of the contiguous areas of the coast and the lower Niger Basin.

Separating the two segments of the coastal plain and extending to the northeast and northwest are the broad river basins of the Niger and Benue rivers. The upper reaches of these rivers form narrow valleys and contain falls and rapids. Most of the lower portions, however, are free from rapids and have extensive floodplains and braided stream channels. To the north of the Niger and Benue basins are the broad, stepped plateau and granite mountains that characterize much of northern Nigeria. Such mountains are also found in the southwest, in the region between the western coastal plains and the upper Niger Basin. The western wedge between Abeokuta and Ibadan and the Niger Basin reaches elevations of 600 meters or more, while the extensive northern savanna region, stretching from Kontagora to Gombe and east to the border, includes extensive areas with elevations of more than 1,200 meters or more at its center. The mountainous zone along the middle part of the eastern border, the Cameroon Highlands, includes the country's highest point (2,042 meters). In the far northeast and northwest, elevation falls again to below 300 meters in the Chad Basin in the far northeast and the Sokoto Basin in the northwest.

WHAT ALL THESE MEANS DUMB ASS IS THAT WHEN MEASURING A PLACE AND PART OF IT IS BELOW SEA LEVEL(POINT) AND ANOTHER PART IS ABOVE SEA LEVEL(POINT) THEY ARE BOTH MEASURED WITH THE SAME ELEVATION BUT STARTING AT EACH POINT AND NOT USING ASSUMPTIONS THAT SINCE THIS AREA IS BELOW SEA LEVEL LETS MEASURE FROM A LOWER ELEVATION (BOTH WILL BE MEASURED FROM SAY AN ELEVATION OF 200M BUT STARTING FROM DIFFERENT POINT.) THE KILOMETRES YOU ARE TALKIN ABOUT IS THE LENGHT OF THE AREA MUMU

@deepzone

jobless girl,you are so obsessed with the north,do something better with yourself,atleast the news coming from the north this days is about economic development and less dependence on oil,you dont hear much about that from the south do you? before you realise the north would have gone far! GET A LIFE!!

its due to her hate of the north,she now acquints islam with north.sadly it has now shown that the northerners and muslims are far better than her

if awards were money

why turn this to a religious war?

christians are not better than muslims and muslims are not better than christians,personally as a christian i think islam is a bit more disciplined than christianity

you can actually go to google and zoom these pictures depending on how the arguement suits you

from those two maps you posted the elevation of benin is 82m and that of hadeija is 357m (that shouldnt be that difficult for you to figure out considering you can actually see the road network in the benin picture

nigeria1,a comical character on nairaland goes about with pictures trying to butress a point that the south is more populated than the north or the west more poupulated than the east,ordinarily i don't pay attention to his pictures,but i decided to give the comic character the benefit of doubt and the revelation was staggering!,for instance in his comparison of loboru,ibadan,kano,kaduna,zaria,maiduguri,hadeija he used the following elevations:

loboru 12m

ibadan 211m

kano 440m

kaduna 625m

zaria  634m

maiduguri 310m

hadeija  358m
in comparing benin and hadeija,he used the following elevations:

benin 82m

hadeija 357m
[/b]the higher the elevation,the smaller the picture(population),the lower the elevation the bigger the picture(population),in other words he uses higher elevation for northern populations and lower for southern populations. the arguement between northern population and southern population will linger on but if we must let us atleast use facts without manipulation to suit our purposes

[b]NOTE all these elevations can be checked on the lower right corner of the pics he posted himself

kwara? maybe because they were captured by the fulani,in any case THE REPUBLIC OF AVERNIA will survive

i am not for division,but if we must break away then there must be an AVERNIA REPUBLIC benue,southern taraba,kogi,nasarawa,plateau,southern kaduna,abuja and plateau state

BIAFRA
ODUDUWA
NIGERDELTA
AREWA
AVERNIA

BUT I DONT SUPPORT A BREAK UP

@ikey
DONT MIND THE BLOODY JIHADIST,LET ME EDUCATE THEM MORE


The Tiv say they emerged into their present location from the southeast. "Coming down," as they put it, they met the Fulani, with whom they still recognize a joking relationship. The earliest recorded European contact was in 1852, when Tiv were found on the banks of the Benue. In 1879 their occupation of the riverbanks was about the same as in 1950. British occupying forces entered Tivland from the east in 1906, when they were called in to protect a Hausa and Jukun enclave that Tiv had attacked. The Tiv said in 1950 that they had defeated this British force, then later invited the British in. The southern area was penetrated from the south; what southern Tiv call "the eruption" of the British there occurred in 1911.

Dutch Reformed missionaries from South Africa entered Tivland in 1911; they were joined, and then succeeded, by U.S. Protestants in the 1940s and 1950s. Catholic missions arrived in the 1920s.

The early administration, coming as it did from the east where Tiv had come under the influence (but not the hegemony) of Jukun and Hausa kingdoms, established "District Heads," who were influential men to whom the British gave authority in which other Tiv did not concur. That system was extended beyond the area of Jukun influence to other Tiv, causing disturbances. Beginning in 1934, the administration created Tiv experts—men who learned the Tiv language and stayed for far longer periods of time than most colonial officers stayed with any given people. Their reports provided a firm basis for administrative reform.

what has pix got to do with this? go back to pre-primary

ishmael:
Pally are you saying there are no muslims in Benue state or in Tiv land? Is Abubakar Tsav (a police comissioner or AIG, i can't remember his rank again) not a Tiv and a muslim? There are a lot of Tivs in Katsina-Ala that practice islam. The idomas have thir own people too that are practicing muslims. But does being a muslim make one Hausa? Are yorubas Hausas too, because majority of them are muslims?

abubakar tsav though from benue has lived all his lie in kano and adapted there culture (he is considered a kano man in benue)

because it is called katsina ala doesnt mean there are muslims there (it was named after a trader of katsina-yoruba origin) infact katsina ala is the birth place of christianity in benue(it started in sai katsina ala by the NKST missionaries) apart from tsav there are probably five other muslim families in the whole of tiv land. there are one or two muslims in idoma land and thats all you can get. please do not argue because you want to argue,argue based on what you know

IF IMAY ASK YOU APART FROM TSAV,HAVE YOU HEARD OF ANOTHER TIV MUSLIM? YOU MIGHT DO WELL BY NAMING THE PERSON

Nigeria1@;:
Is this the white people who would do 419 to you in this video. So you thing them be like you. who there look for mugu , If the NASA pictures are not correct. look the USA media houses would have exposed it. this is a society where even president george bush can be exposed and arrest for a crime, they so much follow the law. believe me, white people did not do 419, it was mr makama and shehu musa who were behind the 419. NASA is one of the best agency in the USA, they would never manipulate this pictures.

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2935397

bros is it that you dont know the difference between pictures or numbers or what? what has shehu musa got to do with census? was it not conducted under obasanjo? WHO THE HELL ALLOWED YOU ACCESS TO A COMPUTER?

since you are so daft and cant do common research let me help you

http://www.islamicity.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10031

STOP MAKING A BIG FOOL OF YOURSELF

the flag did not reach benue,the caliphate was moving westwards not east wards. bros you dont have a clue about history,the tortivs name is alfred akawe torkula on his head is leopard skin(the symbol of a great warrior) go back and read those history books well ,tivland ,idoma land,jukun land and igalaland were not affected,bros research on your internet and stop making a fool of your self

nigeria1

whether you like it or not whether you post pictures,videos or radio waves this is the true composition of nigeria

Hausa and Fulani 29%, Yoruba 21%, Igbo (Ibo) 18%, Ijaw 10%, Kanuri 4%, Ibibio 3.5%, Tiv 2.5%

Muslim 50%, Christian 40%, indigenous beliefs 10%

0-14 years: 41.7%
15-64 years: 55.3%
65 years and over: 3%

and auwal87

they can never be an emir in benue,in the first instance the fact that your dream country has the word emirates disqualifies benue,plateau,kogi and taraba states.

secondly the name arewa and symbol (try using that symbol and calling someone arewa in gboko-benue state and see if you dont get killed)

ignorance

yar adua is from the north west and not north central

@topic

theres no shame there,this topic is useless