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Origin of Organic Matter and Geochemical Variation of Upper Quaternary Sediments from the Ulleung Basin  

Kim, Ji-Hoon (Petroleum and Marine Resources Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Park, Myong-Ho (Petroleum Technology Institute, Korea National Oil Corporation)
Ryu, Byong-Jae (Petroleum and Marine Resources Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Lee, Young-Joo (Petroleum and Marine Resources Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Oh, Jae-Ho (Petroleum and Marine Resources Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Cheong, Tae-Jin (Petroleum and Marine Resources Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Chang, Ho-Wan (School of Earth and Environmental Science, Seoul National University)
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Economic and Environmental Geology / v.40, no.5, 2007 , pp. 605-622 More about this Journal
Abstract
Elemental, Rock-Eval pyrolysis and isotopic analysis of the core sediments from the northwestern and eastern Ulleung Basin of the East were carried out to identify their geochemical characteristics, spatial and vertical variation and origin of organic matter in Upper Quaternary sediments from the northwestern and eastern Ulleung Basin of the East Sea. TOC, m and TS did not show spatial variation between the sampling locations whereas they showed systematic vertical variation associated with MIS stages related to the sea-level change of the East Sea. It is suggested that these past changes of sea-level influenced the sedimentary depositional environments and/or diagenesis which resulted the patterns observed in this study. Based on the results of TOC/N, TS/TOC, ${\delta}^{13}C_{org}\;and\;{\delta}^{15}N_{org}$ analysis, organic matters in the study area appears to be predominantly originated from the marine algae rather than land plant and deposited under normal marine oxic condition during MIS I and MIS III period, and under euxinic/anoxic condition during MIS II period. TOC/N, ${\delta}^{13}C_{org}\;and\;{\delta}^{15}N_{org}$ have a relatively constant value irrespective of MIS stages, implying that the organic matter source does not change by the sea-level fluctuations. However, the results of Rock-Eval pyrolysis indicates that the organic matter is in immature stage and originated from land-plant (Type III), locating in the immature stage land plant (Type III). Similar differences were reported from other areas such as the Atlantic Ocean, Iberia Abyssal Plain, Mediterranean Sea, suggesting that Rock-Eval method does not exactly reflect the characteristic of immature organic matters. Accordingly, the application of Rock-Eval pyrolysis for delineating the source of immature organic matters should be approached with caution and all other geochemical proxies should be considered altogether at the same time.
Keywords
Quaternary; Organic matter; Marine algae; Geochemical proxies; Ulleung Basin;
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