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Geomorphological Processes of Yuga Alluvial Fan in Korea (유가 선상지의 지형 형성과정)

  • Lee, Gwang-Ryul;Cho, Young Dong
    • Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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    • v.48 no.2
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    • pp.204-217
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    • 2013
  • This study shows the geomorphological processes of Yuga alluvial fan at Dalseong-gun, Daegu in Korea, based on characteristics of geomorphological surfaces, analysis of geomorphological deposits and OSL age dating. Alluvial fans of this area are classified into three surfaces(YG-F1, YG-F2, YG-F3) and were formed by the depositional processes resulting from the changes in hydraulic geometry of flowing water which was a stream flowing out of mountains debouched on to a plain, not by a sudden decrease in surface gradient of river bed. YG-F3 surface, about 110,000 yr B.P.(MIS 5.4), was formed as Yongri river deposited a lot of debris. This result was due to the process that the deposition took place actively with the upward of base level as the last interglacial period began. Later, the denudation of the river valley and geomorphological surface constantly occurred and the local and seasonal changes were found in precipitation and stream discharge with the beginning of the interstadial of the last glacial stages(MIS 3), leading to YG-F2 formed by debris flow, earth flow, mud flow and stream flow. Then, short-term climate changes and temporal climate events repeatedly caused aggradation and denudation over time and going through these processes, YG-F1 is believed to have been made by earth flow or mudflow during the last glacial maximum(MIS 2).

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Geomorphic Development of Tucson and Chiricahua in Arizona, U.S.A (미국 아리조나 투산과 치리카와 지역의 지형발달)

  • PARK, Heui Doo
    • Journal of The Geomorphological Association of Korea
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2008
  • This studied area is divided into the mountains and the valleys. The former is nearly consisted of the badland, the latter is consisted of alluvial plains in the valley, fluvial terrace at the side of the river, alluvial fans between mountains and river terrace. There are many tors, mushroom rocks, sugarloaves, weathering pits, castle coppies, columnar rocks, pinnacles, balanced rocks carved on tuff by means of erosion in the Chiricahua Nat'l Monument. Willcox Playa is alkalic crust where was lake in pleistocene epoch at the time wetter than present. Alkalic crust was made of Ca, Na, K etc. There are sand dunes around here where was lake side in the past. We found many kinds of fossils at the 2,000ft thick horizons of valley alluvium. Pediment and alluvium bordered at the base of Mt. Dragoon wavily. Exfoliation and spalling and sheeting resulted in boulders around here. Tucson is alluvial plain filled in thick 7,0000ft valley. Volcano, fault, erosion, alluvium were and are processing in this area.

Depositional features and sedimentary facies of steep-faced fan-delta systems: modern and ancient (현생 및 고기 급경사 선상지-삼각쭈계 퇴적층의 특성과 퇴적상)

  • Choe M. Y.;Chough S. K.;Hwang I. G.
    • The Korean Journal of Petroleum Geology
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    • v.2 no.2 s.3
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    • pp.71-81
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    • 1994
  • Alluvial fan delta often extends into deep water, forming steep-faced delta front. Depositional features of modern steep-faced fan-delta slope and prodelta are characterized by slump scar, chute/channel, swale, lobe, splay and debris fall. These features largely originate from sediment failure or sediment-laden underflows (sediment-gravity flows) off river mouth. Sedimentary facies of equivalent ancient systems comprise sheetlike and/or wedged bodies of gravelstone and sandstones, slump-scar and -fill, chute/channel-fills, and sheetlike, lobate and slump mass on steeply-inclined fan-delta foreset and prodelta.

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The Geomorphological Significance of Gyeongiu Alluvial fan and Fans in Korean Peninsula (한국의 선상지와 경주선상지의 지형적 의의)

  • 사이토쿄지;윤순옥;황상일
    • Proceedings of the KGS Conference
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.40-40
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    • 2004
  • 지형학연구의 주요 쟁점의 하나는 한반도 산록에 분포하는 완만한 지형면 형성과 정에 관한 논의이다 한국 지형학계의 일각에서는 안정지괴에 속한 한반도에는 선상지발달이 불리하고 친식지형이 일반적이라는 편견이 있어, 산록완사면이 페디멘트로 이해되고 선상지 차체를 부인하는 경향이 있다. 또한 선상지와 하안단구, 해안단구 대부분이 페디멘트와 같은 과정을 거쳐 형성된 것으로 해석되면서 대학의 지형학 교재나 일부 교과서에 반영되어 혼란이 야기된다. (중략)

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Sedimentological Study of the Nakdong Formation to analyse the Forming and Evolving Tectonics of the Cretaceous Gyeongsang Basin, I: Depositional Setting, Source, and Paleocurrent Analyses of the Nakdong Formation in the Southwestern Gyeongsang Basin (백악기 경상분지의 생성 및 진화에 관여한 지구조운동의 분석과 최하부 낙동층에 대한 퇴적학적 연구 I: 경상분지 서남단 낙동층의 퇴적환경과 기원암, 고수류 분석)

  • Cheong, Dae-Kyo;Kim, Yong-In
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.29 no.5
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    • pp.639-660
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    • 1996
  • The lowest formation of the Cretaceous Gyeongsang Supergroup, the Nakdong Formation, unconformably overlies the gneiss complex basement in Hadong, Gyeongsangnam-do and Gwangyang, Chullanam-do. The Nakdong Formation of the study area is 500-600 m thick and occurs as a belt shape. Based upon lithology, sedimentary structure, and bedding geometry the formation consists of three conglomerate facies (Gd, Gn, Gic), five sandstone facies (Sh-n, Sh-i, Sp, Sr, Sm), and four mudstone facies (Mf, Mfn, Mc, Mv). Sandstone facies are the most prominent in the study area. The twelve facies can be grouped into five facies associations. The depositional settings are elucidated from analyses of 12 facies and five facies associations of the formation. The lower part of the Nakdong Formation was deposited in alluvial plain, and the middle and upper parts were in a riverine system. The lithologies of the Nakdong Formation of the Gyeongsang Basin have been considered to consist of generally conglomerates and pebbly sandstones that were accumulated in alluvial fans. But the common lithology of the study area is sandstone which was formed in lower part of alluvial fan or fluvial setting. It is supposed that the coarser sedimentary sequence distributed west to the study area should be eroded out after deposition and early uplift, and the finer sandstone sequence in the east remains behind. The mineral composition of sandstones and the clast composition of conglomerates indicate that the Nakdong Formation was derived mainly from the metamorphic source rocks. Some reworked intraclasts were also supplied from the intrabasinal sedimentary layers. Paleocurrent data collected from cross-beddings, ripple marks, asymmetric sand dune suggest that most sediments were transported from north to south during the Nakdong Formation time.

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Holocene Environments of the Buyeo Area Choongnam Province: Reconstructed from Carbon Isotopic and Magnetic Evidences from Alluvial Sequences (충남 부여지역의 홀로세 기후변화 -탄소동위원소분석과 대자율분석을 이용하여-)

  • Park, Kyeong;Park, Ji-Hoon
    • Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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    • v.46 no.4
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    • pp.396-412
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    • 2011
  • Multi-proxy analysis was used to produce a high-resolution paleoclimatic record from a thick section of the Holocene alluvial fan deposit in Gatap-ri, Buyeo. According to ${\delta}^{13}C$ analyses, five minor climate fluctuations can be determined. From the stage I to stage VI, climate changes are as follows: cool-dry, warm-humid, cool-dry, warm humid, drier than stage IV, and finally more humid environment than stage V. According to magnetic susceptibility records, four different stages can be identified, among which stage ii shows the highest susceptibility. Stage-i deposit is derived from sediments of back marsh-type wetland. Stage-ii and stage-iii deposits, however, show higher magnetic susceptibility because magnetite-enriched soil from weathered upland was transported to the area to form an alluvial fan deposits. Stage-iv deposit is comparable to the modern plow horizon.

Geomorphological Development of Palgye Alluvial Plain and Landscape Change of the Chilgok area, Northeastern Part of Daegu Metropolitan City (대구광역시 칠곡 팔계평야의 지형발달과 경관변화)

  • HWANG, Sangill;YOON, Soon-Ock;KANG, Chang-Hyeok;Lim, Won-Hyeon
    • Journal of The Geomorphological Association of Korea
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.29-40
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    • 2010
  • The Palgye Plain, located in Chilgok, Buk-gu, Daegu-si, is a floodplain by Palgye-River rising from Mt. Ga one of the mountains in Ring Typed Mountains of Mt. Palgong. The geomorphic surfaces in the study area can be divided into the natural levee, back marsh and confluent fan, and the natural levee and fan have been used as important regions of human activities since the Bronze Age. The alluvium sediments of Palgye-River can be subdivided into the bedrocks, lower gravel deposits, lower sandy deposits, lower silty deposits, upper sand and gravel deposits, and upper silty deposits from the bottom according to the formative ages. The lower gravel deposits correlated to the last glacial stage and the rest to Holocene, respectively. Confluent fans were also formed during the last glacial stage. Moreover, The landscape with land use after 20C was changed to apartment area due to civilization differently from which reflected the characteristics of geomorphic surfaces in the past.

Search of submarine discharge locations with multi-temporal thermal infrared images and ground radar surveys

  • Onishi K.;Sairaiji M.;Rokugawa S.;Tokunaga T.;Sakuno Y.
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.685-688
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    • 2004
  • Fresh water discharge from the sea floor strongly affects a coastal ecology and the diffusion of contaminants. Much fresh water discharge has been found in the edge of Kurobe alluvial fan, in which annual rainfall is over 4000mm and there is abundant groundwater. However, it is difficult to find the groundwater discharge, thus the search of possible areas with some remote sensing tools is required. Because the temperature of the discharge point is relatively low compared with the surrounding sea water surfaces, there is a possibility to detect the area as an irregular zone of thermal infrared images. Two anomalous temperature zones, which have no surface streams from rivers, are detected by ASTER thermal-infrared images. One of them was verified as the groundwater discharge point by dives. In addition, the distribution of water table under the land side of the two areas is also detected as irregular zones by a ground-penetrating radar

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Sedimentary Petrology and Depositional Environments of the Sindong Group in the Euiseong Subbasin (의성소익지(義城小益地) 신동층군(新洞層群)의 퇴적암석학(堆積岩石學) 및 퇴적환경(堆積環境))

  • Lee, Kwang-Choon
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.289-299
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    • 1985
  • Sedimentary petrology and depositional environments of the Sindong Group, consisting of in ascending order the Nagdong, Hasandong and Jinju Formations, in the Euiseong Subbasin are studied. For these, the Sindong sequence over 1,000m thick is measured at the scale of 1:200 and 36 thin sections of sandstones of the Hasandong Formation are studied under the polarizing microscope. In addition, published paleontologic data are incorporated in the sedimentologic interpretation. Most of the sandstones are classified as arkose. They are moderately sorted, near symmetrical to fine skewed and mesokurtic. Relationship between the textural parameters suggests a fluviatile environment of the Hasandong Formation. The Sindong fauna and flora also indicate non-marine depositional environments. Sedimentologic data of the measured sections show that the Sindong Group is made up of from the bottom an alluvial fan (lower part of the Nagdong Formation), a fluvial plain (upper part of the Nagdong Formation and the Hasandong Formation) and a fluvial/lacustrine (the Jinju Formation) deposits.

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