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http://dx.doi.org/10.5657/kfas.2007.40.3.160

Sedimentary Facies and Processes in the Ulleung Basin and Southern East Sea  

Lee, Byoung-Kwan (Korea Inter-University Institute of Ocean Science, Pukyong National University)
Kim, Seok-Yun (Department of Oceanography, Pukyong National University)
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Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences / v.40, no.3, 2007 , pp. 160-166 More about this Journal
Abstract
The coarse deposit with a lower mud content adjacent to the shelf of the southern East Sea is probably a "relict" sediment deposited in response to a lower stand of sea level during the Pleistocene. The sediment that developed on the slope and in the deep sea was river-borne primarily and was secondarily reworked or redistributed by the Tsushima Warm Current from the East China Sea. The clay mineralogy of the area suggests various sources of fine-grained sediment from adjacent rivers, the Korea Strait, volcanic material from Ulleung Island, and the Japan coast. Massive sand, bioturbated mud, homogeneous mud, and laminated mud were the dominant facies found in the core sediments from the study area. The massive sand was mainly volcanic ash from an eruption on Ulleung Island (9300 yr BP) and consisted of colorless pumiceous glass and a black scoriaceous type. The sedimentation rates on the slope, based on the Ulleung-Oki ash layer, were about 10cm/ky higher than in the basin. Other than the coarse-grain sediment, the mean size of the fine sediment dominating the bioturbated and homogeneous muds in the basin and the laminated mud on the slope was 6-10 phi. This indicates a difference in the major sedimentary process: hemipelagic sedimentation in the Ulleung Basin and mass flow deposition, such as turbidite, on the slope of the southern East Sea.
Keywords
East Sea; Southern East Sea; Ulleung basin; Sedimentary facies;
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