ABSTRACT

The area to the west of the White Nile, South of Khartoum is one of the least developed parts of the country, and one of the least developed and unresearched regions from the geological point of view; though agricultural land is locally distributed in the region. The lack of water supply in the region and the existence of fixed sand desert are possibly the main reasons behind the underdevelopment of the region. Dominating geomorphological features in the western part of the White Nile are the Abu Dulu Goz sands that extent lineary in N-S directions, the wadi el Mugaddam which has also a similar trend, and the inselbergs of small hills normally of basement complex type. These are the basement complex and they are the oldest known rocks in the Sudan and presumably of Precambrian age. The superficial deposits which represent the soils of the region cover most of the area.