Geomorphological Development of Embayment Area at the estuary of Nakdong River

낙동강 하구 만입지의 지형발달

Estuary of River Nakdong(in south-eastern coast of Korean Peninsula) is the most representative site of delta in Korea. This study is to elucidate morpho-structural background associated with the embayment area and sedimentation processes, having allowed development of the delta. In this area, Great morphological trait of the embayment area had been formulated by differential erosion exploiting regional fracture system(NNE-SSW, NNW-SSE, E-W,...) of tectonic origin. For this reason, outline of the embayment basin shows quadrangular plan, and ridges and dissected valleys of neighbouring mountains draw frequently morphological lineament pattern. At the last glacial age when delta deposit had not yet filled the actual embayment basin of the Nakdong, mechanical weathering(frost shattering) and mass-movement processes had provided detritus materials composed of blocks, boulders on bottom the basin. With the postglacial transgression in the Holocene, the basin had been submerged, then began to be filled with fluvio-marine deposits from Kimhae-Yangsan area toward actual estuarine zone, so that Nakdong delta have been formed. Analysis and synthesis of from hundreds of boring data of the delta area reveal that progression of delta formation have been accompanied with the development of barrier islands. If the barrier islands had grown as forming a plural row, then their intervals have posteriorly filled with another fluvio-marine deposits. Besides, it shows that delta deposits are essentially alluvial. However, at the periphery of the delta, intervention of fine marine deposits is frequently found.

우리나라 동남해안에 위치하고 있는 낙동강 하구 만입에는 대규모의 충적지형이 발달되어 있다. 외형적으로 이들은 하천과 해양의 상호작용에 의해 형성된 델타의 성격을 보이지만 만입 충적물의 퇴적층후는 일반적인 델타와는 다른 층서적 특징을 나타낸다. 이들의 발달과정을 파악하기 위해 남-북, 동-서 횡단면의 총 108개 지점의 시추 주상도를 검토하고 이 중 53개 지점에 대해서는 층후, 구성물질, 패각의 존재유무, 퇴적상을 도식화하고 연대분석(AMS)을 시도하였다. 지형적 배경, 구성물질의 특징과 규모, 층서적 특징, 연대측정 결과를 고려할 때, 낙동강 하구 만입 충적지는 지구조 운동에 의해 다양한 방향의 산지들이 만입을 형성한 후, 여기에 사면 쇄설성 물질, 하천 퇴적물, 홀로세해진시기의 해양퇴적물($7830{\pm}40BP{\sim}5680{\pm}50BP$)이 시기와 공간을 달리하며 퇴적된 것으로 파악될 수 있다.