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http://dx.doi.org/10.9719/EEG.2017.50.2.97

Reactivated Timings of Yangsan Fault in the Northern Pohang Area, Korea  

Sim, Ho (Department of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University)
Song, Yungoo (Department of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University)
Son, Moon (Department of Geological Sciences, Pusan National University)
Park, Changyun (Department of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University)
Choi, Woohyun (Department of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University)
Khulganakhuu, Chuluunbaatar (Department of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University)
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Economic and Environmental Geology / v.50, no.2, 2017 , pp. 97-104 More about this Journal
Abstract
Here we present the timings of reactivated events from a fault in the northern Pohang area, which should be located at the northern-end of Yangsan fault line, the major fault in the southeastern Korean Peninsula. Recently developed illite-age-analysis (IAA) approach was employed for determining the fault-activated timing, combined with illite-polytype quantification using the optimized full-pattern-fitting (FPF) method, and K-Ar age-dating for each size fraction($<0.1{\mu}m$, $0.1-0.4{\mu}m$, and $0.4-1.0{\mu}m$) of 4 fault clay samples. Two chronological records of brittle fault-activation events were recognized at $19.6{\pm}1.86Ma$ and $26.1{\pm}2.55-27.9{\pm}3.46Ma$. The ages are much younger than those of fault clays from Sangcheon-ri area (41.5~43.5 and 50.7 Ma), the southern part of Yangsan fault line, and are close to the timing of East Sea-opening event. Further chronological analysis for additional sites of the Yangsan fault should be needed to reveal the time-scheme of the tectonic events and their spatial distributions along the fault line.
Keywords
Yangsan fault; fault reactivation age; illite-age-analysis(IAA); K-Ar age-dating; fault clay;
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