Seasonal Variations of Sedimentary Processes on Mesotidal Beach in Imjado, Southwestern Coast of Korea

한반도 서해남부 임자도 해빈 퇴적작용의 계절적 변화

  • Published : 2004.08.01

Abstract

A continuous monitoring of textural characteristics of surface sediments, sedimentation rates and beach profile was carried out to investigate the seasonal variations of sedimentary processes in the Imjado beach, southwestern coast of Korea for two years. The beach profiles consist of steep beach face and relatively flat middle and low tide beaches. The slope of the beach face increases in summer and decreases in winter, in good accordance with the standard beach cycle. Ridge and runnel systems are well developed in the middle and low tide beaches during the summer, but these structures are replaced by mega-ripples during the winter. The sediments are fining southward as well as landward. The mean grain-size tends to be increasingly coarser during seasons of autumn and winter on the north beach and during seasons of winter and spring on the south one. In addition, the sediments are eroded on the north beach and accumulated on the south one as a whole. These are probably due to southward transportation of the sediments as long-shore current (NE-SW) runs around the coastal line of the beach. However, the seasonal variations in accumulation rates are very complex and irregular. It is considered that the Imjado beach represents in non-equilibrium state, as a result of coastal and submarine topographic changes by artificial agents and sea-level uprising associated with global warming.

한반도 서해남부 임자도 해빈에서 퇴적작용의 계절적 변화를 규명하기 위하여 2년 동안 지형 단면과 표층퇴적물, 집적률에 대한 모니터 링을 실시하였다. 해빈 단면은 경사가 급한 해빈면과 비교적 경사가 완만한 중ㆍ저조해빈으로 이루어져 있다. 해빈면의 경사는 여름에 증가하고 겨울에 감소하여 일반적인 해빈의 계절순환 양상과 잘 일치된다. 또 한 중ㆍ저조해빈은 여름에는 파봉과 유흔구조가 잘 발달하는데 반해, 겨울에는 메가 연흔이 잘 발달하는 계절적 변화를 보인다. 해빈 퇴적물은 해빈의 북측에서 남측으로, 그리고 저조선에서 고조선 방향으로 세립해지는 경향을 보인다. 퇴적물의 평균 입도는 북측 해빈에서는 가을과 겨울에 조립해지는데 반해, 남측 해빈에서는 겨울과 봄에 조립해지는 경향을 보인다. 또한 집적률 조사 결과, 북측 해빈은 전체적으로 침식되고 남측 해빈은 퇴적되는 양상을 보인다. 이와 같은 현상은 해빈 퇴적물이 해안선 방향(북동-남서)으로 발달하는 연안류에 의해 해빈을 따라 남쪽으로 이동하기 때문으로 생각된다. 그러나 집적률의 계절적 변화는 매우 복잡할 뿐 아니라 뚜렷한 규칙성을 보이지 않는다. 이는 아마도 인위적 요인에 의한 연안 및 해저지형 변화와 지구온난화에 따른 해수면 상승 등 다양한 요인들에 의해 임자도 해빈의 에너지 수준이 평행상태에 도달하지 못하고 불안정한 상태에 있음을 의미하는 것으로 생각된다.

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