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

류상옥 (Faculty of Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, Chonnam National University)
장진호 (Department of Marine Resources, Mokpo National University)
조주환 (Department of Earth Sciences, Chosun University)
문병찬 (Department of Science Education, Chonnam National University)
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The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY / v.9, no.3, 2004 , pp. 83-92 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
Tidal beach; Sedimentary processes; Seasonal variations; Accumulation rates; Ridge and runnel systems; Beach profile;
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