• 한국지형학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.19-30
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• 2018

This study tries to infer fault lines and produce a map for the lines based on a classification of fault-related landforms and fluvial landformsin the Gyeongju area of the Yangsan Fault Valley. Fault activities in the study area are thought to be older than the time of river formation or stronger than the erosion by river, while the northern and southern parts of the study area seem to have experienced fault activities after valley formation. It is also possible that weaker fault activities than the erosion by river seem to have been prevailed in the parts. In the study area, the Gyeongju alluvial fan is located within a wide erosional valley at the joint area of the Yangsan and Ulsan Faults. From the distribution of the landforms, it is inferred that several fault lines parallel to the Yangsan Fault are distributed at both sides of the fault valley. In particular, the area from Bae-dong to Nogok-ri, Naenam-myeon shows the most obvious linearity of the landforms within the study area. Several fault lines with a direction of NNE-SSW are also found around the epicenter of the 2016 Gyeongju Earthquake.

• 한국지형학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.89-103
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• 2018

This study presents results of analysis on fault-related landforms and the Quaternary fluvial landforms, which are important evidences for active faulting by identifying surface deformation, around the Ulsan Fault Zone. In addition, this study suggests lineament map and inferred active fault-line map based on analyzing linearity and continuity of these landforms and by compiling location information of existing active faults. We convince that quantitative tectonic-geomorphological analysis are an effective method for active faults tracking, in particular, considering the conditions of relatively low seismicity and surface ruptured-events in the Korean Peninsula compared to plate boundary active areas. However, research on active fault in South Korea is just an infant stage since the 1990s and requires accumulation of research achievements on development and application of various fault analysis techniques, analysing and standardizing linear structures.

• 한국지형학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.69-84
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to extract lineaments in the southeastern part of the Gaeum Fault System, and to understand their characteristics and a relationship between them and fault activation. The lineaments were extracted using a multi-layered analysis based on a digital elevation model (5 m resolution), aerial photos, and satellite images. First-grade lineaments inferred as an high-activity along them were classified based on the displacement of the Quaternary deposits and the distribution of fault-related landforms. The results of classifying the first-grade lineaments were verified by fieldwork and electrical resistivity survey. In the study area of 510 km², a total of 222 lineaments was identified, and their total length was 333.4 km. Six grade lineaments were identified, and their total length was 11.2 km. The lineaments showed high-density distribution in the region along the Geumcheon, Gaeum, Ubo fault, and a boundary of the Hwasan cauldron consisting the Gaeum Fault System. They generally have WNW-ESE trend, which is the same direction with the strike of Gaeum Fault System. Electrical resistivity survey was conducted on eight survey lines crossing the first-grade lineament. A low-resistivity zone, which is assumed to be a fault damage zone, has been identified across almost all survey lines (except for only one survey line). The visual (naked eyes) detecting of the lineament was evaluated to be less objectivity than the automatic extraction using the algorithm. However, the results of electrical resistivity survey showed that first-grade lineament extracted by visual detecting was 83% reliable for inferred fault detection. These results showed that objective visual detection results can be derived from multi-layered analysis based on tectonic geomorphology.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.224-238
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• 2024

역사지진 및 계기지진이 보고되어 앞으로 지진이 발생할 가능성이 있는 한반도 중부지역 중, 충청남도 서부지역에 분포하는 선형구조와 단층지형을 분석하였다. 단층지형을 기반으로 총 151개의 선형구조가 추출하였다. 당진단층과 예산단층이 위치하는 지역에 단층과 주향이 일치하는 선형구조가 밀집하여 분포하는 반면, 홍성단층이 위치한 지역에는 선형구조의 수가 적으며 단층과 유사한 주향을 갖는 선형구조 또한 잘 인지되지 않는다. 이러한 특징은 넓은 충적층과, 오랜 기간의 풍화와 침식, 그리고 경작으로 인한 지표의 변형 등에 의해 단층을 지시하는 지형증거를 인지하기 어렵기 때문으로 판단된다. 단층으로 판명된 5개의 주요지점에서는 단층안부, 제4기 충적층에 나타나는 경사급변점, 선형곡 등의 단층지형이 선형구조를 따라 인지되었으며 단층지형이 실제 단층을 잘 지시하는 것으로 나타났다. 한편 선형구조 내에서 감지된 제4기층의 변위는 단층운동에 의해 직접적으로 형성된 것이 아닌 농경지 정리와 같은 인위적 교란이나 하천 침식의 영향과 같은 외부요인에 의해 형성되었을 가능성이 있는 것으로 파악되었다. 연구지역에서 인지되는 단층지형의 유형과 한반도 남동부 지역에서 인지되는 단층지형의 유형에 차이가 나타나는데 이는 단층지형의 유형이 단층종류에 따라 변화되는 한 예를 보여준다.