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옥동단층대 석영편암의 K-Ar 연령에 대한 검토: 장산층의 선캠브리아기 퇴적에 대한 확실한 증거로 활용 가능한가?

A review on the K-Ar Ages of Quartz Schist in the Okdong Fault Zone: Robust Enough for the Evidence for the Precambrian Deposition of the Jangsan Formation?

  • 김명정 (부경대학교 일반대학원 지구환경시스템과학부) ;
  • 박계헌 (부경대학교 일반대학원 지구환경시스템과학부)
  • Kim, Myoung Jung (Division of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Pukyong National University) ;
  • Park, Kye-Hun (Division of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Pukyong National University)
  • 투고 : 2018.01.22
  • 심사 : 2018.02.24
  • 발행 : 2018.03.31

초록

옥동단층대를 따라 발달한 하부 장산층내 견운모 석영 편암의 K-Ar 연령이 옥동단층의 활동시기와 옥동단층이 자르고 있는 장산층의 퇴적시기를 한정하는데 활용할 수 있어 다시 주목 받고 있다. 보고된 3개의 K-Ar 연령 중에서 가장 오래된 연령($562{\pm}2Ma$)은 조선누층군 최하부층인 장산층의 퇴적시기가 신원생대 말기라는 주장의 중요한 근거로 제시되고 있다. 이와 같은 해석은 퇴적분지의 생성과 진화를 포함한 한반도의 지구조적 진화에 매우 중요한 의미를 갖기 때문에 보고된 연령 분석자료(Yun, 1983)의 신뢰도와 지질학적 의미에 대하여 다시 고찰하였다. 그 결과 분석된 암석표품에 함유된 석영은 상당량의 과잉 Ar을 포함하는 것으로 추정되기 때문에 장산층의 연령을 한정하는 근거로 활용하는 것은 적합하지 않으며, 이 암석표품이 나타내는 압쇄운동의 시기는 약 170 Ma로 판단된다.

The K-Ar ages of a sericite quartz schist in the lower Jangsan Formation along the Okdong fault zone reported by Yun (1983) have attracted attention again because of their potential to constrain the depositional timing of the Jangsan Formation. The oldest age of $562{\pm}2Ma$ among three reported K-Ar ages in the schist led to the claim that the depositional period of the lowermost Jangsan Formation in the Joseon Supergroup is late Neoproterozoic. Its depositional age is important for understanding the tectonic evolution of the Korean Peninsula including the formation and evolution histories of its sedimentary basins. Thus, the reliability and geological meaning of three K-Ar ages in the original paper (Yun, 1983) were revisited in the review. Quartz grains in the analyzed sample contain a considerable amount of excess Ar, and therefore it is inappropriate to use the ages as a basis for a depositional age constraint of the Jangsan Formation. The timing of mylonitization in the schist is recalculated as ~170 Ma.

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