• 한국지형학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.19-30
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• 2019

This study summarizes domestic and foreign previous works on fluvial terrace with absolute ages to discuss formative process of climatic terrace in Korea. Different from traditional climatic terrace model, approximately three quarters from foreign works have argued that formation of climatic terrace can be attributed to medium- and short-term climatic change or other environmental factors, rather than long-term climatic change of glacial and interglacial cycles. Based on previous works on fluvial terrace in Korea, it can be suggested that fluvial terrace in Korea formed not due to long-term climatic change of 100,000-year cycles related to glacial and interglacial cycles, but due to medium- and short-term climatic change or climatic event of tens of thousands of years related to intensity change in summer monsoon, one of the important factors affecting precipitation in Korea.

• 한국지형학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.27-40
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• 2019

This study tries to reveal source areas of fluvial terrace deposits in Danyang and Geum River basins located in the northern and southern parts of the Sobaek Mountains, respectively, through geochemistry. The samples analyzed in this study show different grain size properties and can be grouped into the coarse, medium and fine samples. Grain size properties suggest that the coarse samples are typically fluvial deposits and geochemistry from the coarse samples is also similar to that from the bedrocks within the basins. The fine samples show geochemical properties different from the bedrocks and similar to loess deposits in Korea. However, different geochemical concentrations among the fine samples can be also recognized, indicating mixtures of loess materials with weathering products of the bedrocks. One sample among the medium samples is considered as fluvial deposit due to geochemical similarity to the bedrocks, while geochemistry from another sample among the medium samples indicates that loess materials were mixed with more abundant weathering products of the bedrocks than those in the fine samples.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제26권8호
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• pp.828-835
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• 2005

본 연구는 남한강 중류의 좌안에 분포하는 하성 고위면의 지형특성과 그 단구퇴적층을 모재로 발달한 토양특성을 밝히는데 있다. 조사토양인 적색토는 토양의 형태적, 물리 화학적 및 점토광물의 특성으로 보아 적색토로 분류된다. 토양특성과 고위면의 지형적 특성으로 보아 본 적색토는 제4기의 현재와는 다른 생물 기후환경차에서 탈규산화 작용과 적색토화 작용에 의하여 생성된 고적색토로 사료된다.

• 한국지형학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.21-31
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• 2019

Timing of terrace formation is a key information for understanding the evolution of fluvial systems. In particular, dating strath terrace (i.e. timing of terrace abandonment) is more difficult than depositional terrace that is conventionally constrained by radiocarbon, OSL and other dating methods targeting samples within terrace deposit. Surface exposure dating utilizing cosmogenic ¹⁰Be provides more reliability because it can be applied directly to the surface of a fluvial terrace. Thus, this method has been increasingly used for alluvial deposits. As well as other geomorphic surfaces over the last decades. Some inherent conditions, however, such as post-depositional ¹⁰Be concentration (i.e. inheritance), surface erosion rate, and density change challenge the application of cosmogenic ¹⁰Be to depositional terrace surface against simple bedrock surface. Here we present the first application of ¹⁰Be depth profile dating to a thin-gravel covered strath terrace in Korea. Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) helped us in better constraining the timing of abandonment of the strath terrace, since which its surface stochastically denuded with time, causing unexpected change of ¹⁰Be production with depth. The age of the strath terrace estimated by MCS was 109 ka, ~4% older than the one (104 ka) calculated by simple depth profile dating, which yielded the best-fit surface erosion rate of 2.1 mm/ka. Our study demonstrates that the application of ¹⁰Be depth profile dating of strath terrace using MCS is more robust and reliable because it considers post-depositional change of initial conditions such as erosion rate.

• 한국지형학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.15-27
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• 2019

This study tries to reveal transport mechanism and origin of components from fluvial terrace deposits in Danyang and Geum River basins, through grain size partitioning using the Weibull function. Grain size parameters suggest that the samples analyzed in this study can be grouped into the coarse, fine and medium samples. The coarse samples are partitioned into three or four components. More than 65% of the coarse samples consist of components by suspension and saltation by fluvial process, while components by attachment to coarse grains or aggregates and/or by individual grains deposited under non-flow condition are also found in the coarse samples. The fine samples consist of four components and components found in loess deposits in Korea occupy >70%, suggestive of the same transport mechanisms (westerlies and winter monsoon) and common source areas with loess deposits in Korea. However, components by aeolian process from local sources as well as by fluvial process are also found in the fine samples. The medium samples are partitioned into components with similar sizes to the coarse and fine samples, respectively.

• 한국지형학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.27-40
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• 2017

This study tries to analyze topographic distribution and characteristics of as well as formative age and incision rate of fluvial terraces in Danyang River on western side and Geum River on eastern side of the northern Sobaek Mountains and to estimate geomorphic development during the late Quaternary in the mountains regarded as one of the uplift axes in the Korean Peninsula. OSL age dating shows that the fluvial terrace I with an altitude above riverbed of approximately 7~13 m in Danyang River has a formative age of approximately 18 ka (MIS 2) and incision rate in the river is approximately 0.156~0.194 m/ka based on the age. Altitudes above riverbed of the fluvial terrace I in Geum River range from approximately 7 to 14 m and the terrace is thought to be older than 70 ka based on age result from aeolian sediments above the terrace deposits, suggestive of an incision rate less than approximately 0.10 m/ka. These results indicate lower uplift rate in the northern Sobaek Mountains than in the Taebaek Mountains. Moreover, it can be suggested that the northern Sobaek Mountains has experienced asymmetric uplift during the late Quaternary, because the river on western side of the northern Sobaek Mountains shows greater uplift rate than the eastern side river does. Low incision rate in Geum River can be attributed to low altitude of the river basin with little difference in altitude from the base level as well as to gentle river slope due to influence of Nakdong River.

• 대한지리학회지
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.447-462
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• 2009

본 연구는 태백산맥의 남쪽 말단부에 위치하며 유역 분지의 대부분이 퇴적암으로 구성된 고현천을 대상으로, 하안단구 지형 분류 및 퇴적물 분석을 통해 하안단구의 분포 특성과 형성 과정을 고찰하였다. 고현천 하곡에는 1면$\sim$3면의 하안단구가 발달해 있으며, 충적층의 퇴적 상태와 암석 하상의 존재로 판단할 때, 침식단구일 가능성이 높다. 고현천 하안단구 1면의 형성시기는 약 37,000년 전으로 MIS(Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage) 3시기에 해당하며, 하안단구 2면은 약 113,000년 전으로 MIS 5시기에 해당된다. 따라서 고현천의 하안단구는 상대적으로 온난한, 빙기 내의 아간빙기 또는 간빙기 내의 냉량기에 형성된 것으로 추정된다. 고현천 하안단구 1면의 하각률은 0.054m/ka, 2면의 하각률은 0.115m/ka로 계산되었는데, 이는 낮은 지반 융기율과 부족한 유량으로 인해 우리나라의 다른 하천보다 낮은 하각률을 나타내는 것으로 판단된다.

• 대한지리학회지
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• 제40권6호
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• pp.716-729
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• 2005

한탄강의 지류인 영평천 하류에는 T4면에서 T1면까지 4단의 단구 지형면이 확인된다. 이 일대에는 신생대 제4기에 영평천의 하구로부터 약 4.5km까지 용암류가 역류하여 용암댐에 의한 고호소가 형성되었다. 본 논문은 성동리에서 궁평리까지의 영평천 하류에 분포하는 단구면의 퇴적층에 대한 층서 및 퇴적물 분석과 OSL 연대측정을 통하여 단구지형의 형성과정을 검토하였다. 가장 오래된 T4면은 용암대지 하부에 위치한 고호소 이전의 하성층이다. T3면과 T2면은 $3{\~}4m$ 이상의 두꺼운 모래층으로 이루어져 있고, 그 하부에는 역층이 존재하며, 상부 모래층은 내부에 수평의 점토층이 교호하고 있어, 용암댐 고호소 상태에서 이루어진 호성단구로 파악된다. T1면은 하상 비고가 가장 낮고 퇴적물이 신선한 것으로 보아서 용암댐 개석 이후에 형성된 하성층으로 보인다. T3면에서 실시된 OSL 연대측정의 결과, 퇴적층의 형성시기는 약 $3{\~}4$만년 전으로 측정되어, 이 일대는 용암댐 형성이후 3만년 전까지 호소 상태였던 것으로 추정된다.

• 한국지형학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.15-30
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• 2021

This study tried to reveal distribution of incision rate and the factors from fluvial terrace deposits on the western and eastern slopes in the Middle Sobaek Mountain Range, using OSL age dating and topographical analysis. An average incision rate of 0.220 m/ka was estimated in the western slope streams, while the streams on the eastern slope showed a lower average incision rate of 0.121 m/ka. These results seem to indicate that the study area experienced an asymmetric uplift. Patterns of incision rate in the study area were different from those in the Northern Sobaek Mountain Range, probably suggesting that the Sobaek Mountain Range experienced spatially different uplift patterns. Among the factors, which were considered to influence on distribution of incision rate in the study area (e.g., altitude of sampling point, distance from divide, distance from axis, channel width, and bedrock type), distance from axis showed the strongest relationship with incision rate. Therefore, uplift is thought to be the most significant factor in distribution of incision rate in the Middle Sobaek Mountain Range.

• 대한지리학회지
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.224-239
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• 2009

본 연구는 오대천 상 하류의 하천 지형 특성을 분석하고, 오대천의 하천 및 하안단구 지형 형성과정에 대해 검토하였다. 오대천은 상류 화강암 지역보다 하류 퇴적암 지역에서 풍화 침식에 대한 저항력이 크기 때문에, 상류보다 하류 유역분지에서 해발고도가 높고, 기복량은 크며, 경사도가 높게 나타난다. 또한 상류보다 하류에서 평균 하곡 폭이 1/3 정도로 좁고, 평균 하도 폭도 더 좁은 것으로 측정되었다. OSL 연대 측정 결과 하안단구 1면의 형성시기는 최종 빙기 최성기인 MIS 2기말의 기온 상승기이며, 하안단구 2면은 최종 빙기 내의 아간빙기에 해당되는 MIS 3기 중반으로 측정되었다. 이를 토대로 하안단구 2면 형성 이후 현재까지 오대천의 평균 하각률은 상류 화강암 지역에서 0.205m/ka 하류 퇴적암 지역에서 0.269m/ka로 계산되었다.