• Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.171-181
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• 2002

Glauconization was investigated by morphological and chemical analysis of glaucony from the Pohang Tertiary marine sediments. The glaucony, which is present sparsely in turbidite sandstones, shows two distinct stages in morphology and chemistry. Crystallization of glaucony starts preferentially from the interior of pellet-like grains, then to the outer region of the grains with increasing K and Fe, and decreasing Al. Furthermore, smectite-like glaucony is evolved into illite-like glaucony through interstratified glauconite-smectite with increases in K and Al, and decrease in Fe.

• The Korean Journal of Quaternary Research
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.69-85
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• 1989

The depositional environments of the Pyung-Ahn Group sedimentary rocks, Jeongseon-Kun, Kangweondo, Korea are investigated. The environments are understood to be characteristic transitional from a typical shallow marine to a typical continental environment. Such transitional conditions are also understood in various parts of Quaternary and modern environment on the earth. In particular, the absence of detrital feldspar sand grains in the Manhang and Keumcheon Formation Sandstone body is described firstly in Korea, and the fact and possible mechanism are discussed.

• Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.123-133
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• 2004

Carbonate minerals are examined by cathodoluminescence microscopy and chemical analysis to characterize the carbonate materials occurring in the Tertiary marine basin. The microscopic technique with cathodoluminescence gives new informations that are not obtainable by conventional microscopic techniques. The carbonate cements in sandstones appear to be uniform with transmitted light or with crossed prisms. but the inspection with cathololuminescence reveals foraminiferal tests and rhomb crystals in the carbonate cements. The chemical analysis indicates that the intense luminescence depends mainly on the presence of$ Mn^{ 2+}$ and $Fe^{2+}$ as activator ions, but the $Fe^{2+}$ also acts as an important quencher ion when Fe concentration in dolomite is over 10,000 ppm. The dolomites, which are rich in calcium, are formed at the early stage of diagenesis at a temperature of about 60 ～ $70^{\circ}C$.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.163-176
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• 2019

The Potosinian geological basement in central Mexico is comprised of the Upper Paleozoic metamorphic rocks, which crop out on the Sierra de Catorce nucleus located in the northeastern part of the state. The sedimentary sequence that covers unconformably the Paelozoic basement is represented by an Upper Triassic marine sedimentary sequence, correlating to the Zacatecas Formation and the Upper Triassic continental Huizachal Formation red beds, which in turn are covered either by La Joja Formation Jurassic red beds or by Upper Jurassic marine sediments. This sequence is overlain by the conformable Cretaceous calcareous marine sedimentary rocks in all the state of San Luis Potosi. The Cenozoic sequence unconformably covers some of the aforementioned rocks and is represented by undifferentiated volcanic rocks as well as by marine clastic rocks. The existing intrusive igneous rocks are felsic to intermediate composition, and they intrude the metamorphic basement and sedimentary rocks. Conglomerates with evaporitic sediments were deposited during the Pleistocene. The Quaternary sequence includes basalt flows, piedmont deposits, alluvium, and occasionally evaporites and caliche layers. In the state of San Luis Potosi, a great diversity of mineral deposit types is known as both metallic and nonmetallic. The host rocks of these deposits vary from one another including formations that represent from Paleozoic up to Tertiary. The mineralization age corresponds approximately to Tertiary (75%), and is mainly epigenetic. Conclusively, the data on geology and mineralization in San Luis Potosi, Mexico are helpful to predict a hidden ore body and select promising mineralized zone(s) when the domestic company makes inroads in the mining sector of Mexico.

• Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.4 s.50
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• pp.221-229
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• 2006

Mineralogical and chemical examinations were performed on interstratified illite-smectite (I-S) minerals that occur in the mudstones from a petroleum exploration well in the Tertiary marine basin, Japan. X-ray diffraction analysis shows that component layers of illite in the interstratified I-S increase with increasing burial depth while those of smectie decrease. In addition, the randomly (R=0) interstratified illite-smectite is changed into Rp1 ordered I-S at a depth of about 4,000 m, which corresponds to the result of organic analysis and indicates a burial temperature of about $100^{\circ}C$. However, the present geothermal gradient shows that the conversion of the random I-S to R=0 ordered I-S is likely to occur at 3,000 m. This discrepancy may be interpreted by the reverse fault at 2,500 m which resulted in a deeper burial of sediments up to 1,000 m. Chemical analysis also shows the compositional variation in I-S with increasing depth: a decrease in Si and an increases in Al and K, indicating that the substitution of Al for Si in tetrahedral sheets is compensated by the addition of K to interlayers. K may be derived from K-feldspar and micas, which is present in the mudstones.

• The Korean Journal of Quaternary Research
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• v.18 no.1 s.22
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• pp.41-46
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• 2004

The fluvia(thalassostatic) terraces have been developed among the lower Yeongsan river, near the southwestern coastal region of Korean peninsula. These thalassostatic terraces could be classified into 3 surface, i. e., Yeongsan 32m, 18m, and 10m surface, in desending order, according to the relative heights from the river floor. Yeongsan 32m, 18m and 10m surfaces were corresponded to the mMT3, mLT1 and mLT2 surfaces of Choi(2003), respectively. It was revealed that the mLT1 surface was the marine terraces which had been formed in the Last Interglacial culmination period(oxygen isotope stage 5e) in the southeastern coast of Korean peninsula.

• Journal of the Korean Geophysical Society
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.179-190
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• 1999

The overall structural framework was studied using the regional 2D seismic data, followed by the sequence stratigraphic study on the 3D seismic and well- log data in the margin of the South Con Son basin of the South China Sea. This research contributes to delineate depositional stratigraphy, depositional environment and geologic history in the 3D seismic area of highly complicated faulting. Eight Miocene sequences were indicated on the 3D seismic and well-log data, in which the structural maps of each sequence boundary and the isochron maps for the corresponding sequence were made. The seismic facies were analyzed for each sequence volume and sequence boundary surface. The 3D seismic area is characterized by coal beds deposited in the transgression environment (transgression systems tract) and channel distributions just above the sequence boundaries. During the Early Miocene, the coals and thick shales deposited in the mangrove swamp representing the lower coastal plain environment. During the Mid to Late Miocene, thick clastic sediments deposited in the coastal to shallow shelf by regional subsidence and marine transgression. The isochron maps and structural patterns indicate that the sediments were transported from west to east or from northwest to southeast.

• 한국지구과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.104-105
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• 2010

울산 퇴적 분지에 분포하는 신현층의 이암층 노두에서 이매패에 속하는 Anadara 를 비롯한 여러 종류의 연체동물 화석을 채집하였다. Anadara 화석은 해성 기원의 연체동물로 Vicarya japonica Yabe and Hatai와 함께 소위 Vicarya-Anadara 군집에 속한다. 이 군집은 우리나라의 제3기 생층서를 이해하는데 가장 중요한 정보를 제공한다. 여기에서는 Andara 화석의 형태적 특징과 내부 구조를 고찰하고, 현생종과 비교하였다. 신현층에서 산출된 Anadara 화석은 1속 2종으로 구성된다. 각의 형태적 특징은 각의 외형이 삼각형에 가깝고, 표면에 25~30개의 방사륵이 발달해 있으며 인대면은 삼각형 모형으로, 교치선은 직선이다. 각의 내부 구조를 박편상에서 관찰한 결과, 4개의 층으로 구성되어 있다. Anadara 화석과 현생종 Scapharca subcrenata 을 비교한 결과, 각의 외형은 조금 다르나 내부구조는 서로 거의 유사하다. A. (H.) kakehataensis의 내부 구조는 최외층, 외층, 광휘층, 내층으로 구성되어 있다. 외층은 교차판 구조(crossed- lamellar structure)로 되어 있다. 또한 성장선이 발달되어 있으며, 복연부에 불규칙한 균열이 부분적으로 나타난다. 이는 외부로 노출되어 건조되고 다시 물기를 머금은 상태가 반복되어 수축 팽창에 의한 것이라고 생각되며, 별개의 층은 아니다. 내층은 엽상구조(foliated structure)가 관찰된다. 외층과 내층 사이에 아라고나이트로 구성된 광휘층이 나타나며, 능주 구조(prismatic structure)를 보이는 얇은 층이다. 최외층이 나타난다. A. (H.) daitokudoensis의 내부 구조는 A. (H.) kakehataensis와 서로 거의 유사하고, 내층, 외층, 광휘층 및 최외층의 4개의 층으로 구성된다. 엽상 구조인 내층, 교차판 구조인 외층, 능주 구조인 광휘층 및 최외층은 유기질층으로 되어있다.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.137-144
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• 2012

Soil pan typically presents the problems in soil water movement or in aeration which is not appropriate for a plant root growth, In this study physico-chemical characteristics of soils and micromorphological characteristic of clay accumulated zone were investigated to identify redox characteristic and evolution of a fragipan of Gangreung series commonly developed in coastal terraces. Gangreung series is classified as Aquic Fragiudalfs according to the USDA soil taxonomy. It is known that sedimentary ocean floor results in soil pan having parallel liner soil structure due to landscape evolution around 200 to 250 million years ago. it is considered that illite, kaolinite, and vermiculite are major clay minerals contained in a fragipan of Gangreung series. Mixed gray and reddish brown colored band around soil pores was found and would be the redoxmorphic features of fragipan. It is possibly due to accumulated illuvial clay and ferriargillans in soil pores and aggregates in reducing conditions eluding ferrous material. Therefore, mixed colored band around pores in soils of Gangreung series would be developed from the eluted ferrous materials which were accumulated in fragipan during the emerged land formation.

• The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.241-252
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• 2016

In this paper, in order to test the possibility of applying K feldspar $pIR-IRSL_{290}$ signal(read out at $290^{\circ}C$) to date old terrace sediments(up to ~ 200 ka, MIS 7) in Korea, we investigated luminescence properties of $pIR-IRSL_{290}$ signals in K feldspar extracts from 27 marine and fluvial terrace sediment samples, and these were compared with those of quartz OSL and conventional K feldspar $IRSL_{50}$ (readout at $50^{\circ}C$) signals. The averaged $2D_0$ value of K feldspar $pIR-IRSL_{290}$ growth curves was ~ 700 Gy, which is consistent with that of $IRSL_{50}$ signal, and this is 3 times higher than that for quartz OSL (~ 250 Gy) on average. Where possible, K feldspar $pIR-IRSL_{290}$ ages were compared with quartz OSL and conventional $IRSL_{50}$ ages. Our preliminary K feldspar $pIR-IRSL_{290}$ ages were older than quartz OSL ages by about 200%, while fading rate-corrected conventional $IRSL_{50}$ ages are in good agreement with those based on quartz OSL. This seems to indicate the possibility of K-feldspar $pIR-IRSL_{290}$ age overestimation due to the presence of unbleachable $pIR-IRSL_{290}$ signals, even with a prolonged exposure to sunlight. Both quartz OSL and K-feldspar $pIR-IRSL_{290}$ signals for the samples from Noeum fluvial terrace and Gusan fault site were all in dose saturation level, thus unable to estimate the formation ages of the sediments. However, $2D_0$ values derived from the dose response growth curves strongly indicate that the Noeum fluvial terrace sediments have formed before 109-140 ka, while the fluvial sediments from Gusan fault were desposited before 100-105 ka. Further, this seems to suggest that the previous quartz OSL ages of ~40-50 ka for Gusan fault sediments should be the underestimated ones due to dose saturation problem.