• The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.1-12
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• 2004

Sedimentary facies and high-resolution echo facies were analyzed to elucidate sedimentation pattern of the late Quaternary glacial-marine deposits in the northern continental margin of the South Shetland Islands. Six sedimentary facies are classified, based on grain texture and sedimentary structures in gravity cores. The high-resolution (3.5 ㎑) echo characters are classified into 6 echo facies on the basis of clarity, continuity, and shape of bottom and subbottom echoes together with seafloor topography. Distribution of the echo and sedimentary facies suggest that there was a significant change in sedimentation pattern between the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and subsequent glacier-retreating period. When the grounded glaciers extended to the present shelfbreak during LGM, coarse-grained subglacial tills were widespread in the shelf area, and deep troughs in the shelf were carved beneath the fast-flowing ice steam. As the glacial margin retreated landward after LGM, dense meltwater plumes released from the retreating ice-front were funneled along the glacier-carved troughs, and accumulated channel- or cannyon-fill deposits in the shelf and the upper to mid slope. At that time, slope sediments seem to have been reworked by slope failures and unsteady contour currents, and further transported by fine-grained turbidity currents along the South Shetland Trench. After the glacial retreat, sediments in the shelf and slope areas have been mainly introduced by persistent (hemi) pelagic settling, and fine-grained turbidity currents frequently occur along the axis of the South Shetland Trench.

• Proceedings of the Korean Quaternary Association Conference
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• 2004.06a
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• pp.7-7
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• 2004

한국 남동해역 대륙붕에서 취득된 고해상 탄성파 탐사자료와 퇴적물 시료의 분석에 의하면 후 제4기 퇴적층은 마지막 빙하기 이후의 해수면 변화에 의해 조절되는 저해수면계열, 해침계열, 고해수면계열로 구성된다. 시퀀스 경계면 위의 저해수면계열(층서단위 I)은 마지막 빙하기 동안 퇴적된 니질사 혹은 사질니 퇴적물로 구성되며 대륙붕단과 해곡의 외해역에 분포한다. 해침면과 최대 해침면 사이에 위치하는 해침계열(층서단위 II)은 지난 15,000-6,000년 사이에 퇴적되었으며 주로 사질퇴적물로 구성된다. 해침계열은 연구해역 전반에 걸쳐 넓게 분포하지만 저해수면계열과 고해수면계열에 비해 박층으로 분포한다. 이러한 해침계열은 분포특성에 따라 3개의 소퇴적단위로 세분된다. 즉, 대륙붕단의 초기해침계열(Unit IIa), 중간대륙붕의 중기해침계열(Unit IIb), 내대륙붕의 후기해침계열(Unit IIc)등으로 이들은 후배열층서의 특성을 가진다. 최대해침면 상부에 놓이는 고해수면계열(층서단위 III)은 해수면이 현 수준에 도달한 지난 약 6,000년 이후에 퇴적된 현생 니질 퇴적물로 구성되며 내대륙붕의 연안을 따라 제한적으로 분포한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Quaternary Association Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.35-41
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• 2006

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.47 no.2
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• pp.159-178
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• 2012

Since the suggestions on the paleo-glacial landforms in and around the northern high mountains of Korean Peninsula by some western and Japanese scientists in the early 1900s, the likelihood of the glacier existence in the Baekdusan over the Quaternary glacial period has been had in common among most of the Korean geomorphologists. In the other meaning, some have cast doubt on the likelihood the paleo-glacier in the Baekdusan because there has been no unequivocal evidences for the glacier such as striation, moraines, except morphologic characteristic landforms possibly related to glacier. Here we show some evidences for the existence of the glacier in the Baekdusan and their cosmogenic $^{36}Cl$ exposure ages over the late Quaternary and would put forward a model on the Quaternary landscape evolution of the Baekdusan, with a focus on the relationship of 1000 AD explosive eruption and the glacial landforms. The exposure ages constrained by cosmogenic $^{36}Cl$ abundances of the col surface of the western slope located below the glacier yield 46~26 ka, which is inphase with the last glacial period. Given all the evidences above, we can draw a conclusion that the glacier existed on the Baekdusan over the late Quaternary and the style of glaciation changed from extensive ice cap through valley glacier to restricted cirque.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.495-510
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• 2008

Vaccinium vitis-idaea or lingonberry, a typical arctic-alpine plant, is common on the circumpolar regions and alpine belts of the Northern Hemisphere, and also occurs on the alpine and subalpine belts of the Korean Peninsula, including Mt. Sorak and Hongchon. Vaccinium vitis-idaea at the elevation of c. 350m a.s.l. of Hongchon is found on the wind hole area with cool summer, and mild winter. Vaccinium vitis-idaea at Hongchon is regarded as the glacial relict of the Pleistocene period, and shows a disjunctive distribution, along with the alpine and subalpine belts of the northern and central Korea since the Holocene period. Present vertical range of Vaccinium vitis-idaea between Mt. Sorak and Hongchon might indicates that the temperatures during the glacial epoch was colder than today, down to -6 to $-7^{\circ}C$ Vaccinium vitis-idaea at this fragile wind hole site could be endanger if current global warming trends continues, and anthropogenic activities become serious.

• Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.173-184
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• 2019

Variations in grain size distribution and clay mineral assemblage are closely related to the sedimentary facies that reflect depositional conditions during the glacial and interglacial periods. Gravity cores BS17-GC15 and BS17-GC04 were collected from the continental shelf and rise in the eastern Bellingshausen Sea during a cruise of the ANA07D Cruise Expedition by the Korea Polar Research Institute in 2017. Core sediments in BS17-GC15 consisted of subglacial diamicton, gravelly muddy sand, and bioturbated diatom-bearing mud from the bottom to the top sediments. Core sediments in BS17-GC04 comprised silty mud with turbidites, brownish structureless mud, laminated mud, and brownish silty bioturbated diatom-bearing mud from the bottom to the top sediments. The clay mineral assemblages in the two core sediments mainly consisted of smectite, chlorite, illite, and kaolinite. The clay mineral contents in core GC15 showed a variation in illite from 28.4 % to 44.5 % in down-core changes. Smectite contents varied from 31.1 % in the glacial period to 20 % in the deglacial period and 25.1 % in the interglacial period. Chlorite and kaolinite contents decreased from 40.5 % in the glacial period to 30.3 % in the interglacial period. The high contents of illite and chlorite indicated a terrigenous detritus supply from the bedrocks of the Antarctic Peninsula. Core GC04 from the continental rise showed a decrease in the average smectite content from 47.2 % in the glacial period to 20.6 % in the interglacial period, while the illite contents increased from the 21.3 % to 43.2 % from the glacial to the interglacial period. The high smectite contents in core GC04 during the glacial period may be supplied from Peter I Island, which has a known smectite-rich sediment contributed by Antarctic Circumpolar Currents. Conversely, the decrease in smectite and increase in chlorite and illite contents during the interglacial period was likely caused by a higher supply of chlorite- and illite-enriched sediment from the eastern Bellingshausen Sea shelf by the southwestward flowing contour current.

• The Korean Journal of Quaternary Research
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.13-19
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• 1992

To understand the natural environments and human cultures in the Yellow Sea regions, this paper deals especially the climate and sea level fluctuation in the Yellow Sea and its surrounding region in the period of late Pleistocene (125, 000 yr BP) to Holocene. During the glacial maximum (about 15, 000 yr BP to 18, 000 yr BP), the climate might be cold and arid. These arid climate in the Yellow Sea region did make desertization possible. Possible human culture exchanges between China, Korea and Japan might be carried in a easy way, because the entire basin of the Yellow Sea was exposed as land. Paleoshorelines of the Yellow Sea in the period of 10, 000 yr BP, 9, 000 ry BP and 6, 000 yr BP are presented and sea level fluctuation curve from 37, 000 yr BP (late Pleistocene) to present (late Holocene), for the first time, is presented based on a careful reconsideration of existing old data and recent new data.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.41 no.5 s.116
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• pp.513-526
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• 2006

The timing and extent of glaciations during the Late Quaternary in the South Shetland Islands, West Antarctica were defined using field mapping, geomorphic analysis and radiocarbon dating. Landforms of glacial erosion and deposition, in particular subglacial meltwater channel erosion, suggest that at least three glaciations occurred during the late Quaternary within the study region. During the global LGM, glacial troughs (such as Maxwell Bay and Admiralty Bay) were overdeepened by an ice stream moving south from $an\sim1000m-thick$ ice cap centered on the present-day continental shelf to the north. This ice was responsible for the subglacial meltwater channel erosion, and glacial polished and striated bedrock on the Fildes Peninsula. The recent local glaciations occurred about 2,000 years ago and during Little Ice Age (LIA). During these glaciations, glaciers were less extensive than the previous one and less erosive as a cold-based ice

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.701-710
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• 2016

Perspective of director Bong Joon-ho shown in his movies up to now had been limited to domestic issues but that in the was shifted to the world, mankind, and future of humans. Images exhibited in his movies had the same meanings of many stories in the Bible and myths. The study looks into his philosophical world through the Christian view of the world and the Oriental circulation thinking; the story of the was expressed in before the glacial period, the 17 year glacial period spent in a train, and after the glacial period; structure of the story was composed of allegory as prior to Israelites' Escape from Egypt, desert life for 40 years, and entrance to Canaan. The end in the Bible does not mean complete collapse but it contains aspiration for new heaven and new earth to open a new era, to make a new promise with the God and to live a permanent life. This study intends to interpret the developed in a quite different meaning of imagination of humans' future from the previous one by the director Bong Joon-ho and to make another different explanation underlying in the image projected on the surface layer by the director.

• The Korean Journal of Quaternary Research
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.77-88
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• 1998

한반도의 제4기 지층을 암층서 및 단구층서를 기준으로 전기, 증기 및 후기 플라이 스토신 지층(Ear-ly Middle late Pleistocene Deposits)으로구분할 수 있다. 제 3기와 제4기 의 경계는 고지자기층서 해석에 의하여 한반도에서는 Gauss와 Matuyama chron 경계인 약 2.6Ma를 기준으로 설정할수 있다. 전기 플라이스토신 지층(Early Pleistocene Deposits)은 지형고도상 조구조 운동이 배제된 지역에서는 80m 이하에서의 계곡 사이에서 나타난다. 증 기 플라이스토신 지층(Middle Pleistocene Deposits)은 약0.8Ma부터 약 125ka까지이다. 중기 플라이스토신은 제4기 초깁터 발달하기 시작하였던 주요 계곡들이 현재와 비슷한 형태로 넓 고 깊어지기 시작했던 시기이다. 하천과 해안에는 일련의 단구지형을 잘발달시키지 시작했 고 단구이 형성은 현재보다 해수면이 더 높았던 마지막간빙기까지 계속되었다. 후기 플라이 스토신 지층(late Pleistocene Deposits)은 약 125Ka부터 10Ka까지이며 마지막 간빙기(Last Inter-glacial)와 마지막빙하기(Last Glacial)가 포함된다, 마지막간빙기 동안에는 제 2 하안 및 제 2 해안단구역층이 잘 발달하여 있다 마지막 빙하기 동안에는 해수면의 하강이 극심했 으며 특히 산사면에서 지형경사면을 따라 하부이동된 사면붕적층이 한반도의 전역에 널리 발달했던 시기였다.