• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.551-560
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• 2021

Due to the low strength and high compressibility characteristics, the loess deposits tunnels are prone to large deformations and collapse. An accurate stability evaluation for loess deposits is of considerable significance in deformation control and safety work during tunnel construction. 37 groups of representative data based on real loess deposits cases were adopted to establish the stability evaluation model for the tunnel project in Yan'an, China. Physical and mechanical indices, including water content, cohesion, internal friction angle, elastic modulus, and poisson ratio are selected as index system on the stability level of loess. The data set is randomly divided into 80% as the training set and 20% as the test set. Firstly, principal component analysis (PCA) is used to convert the five index system to three linearly independent principal components X1, X2 and X3. Then, the principal components were used as input vectors for probabilistic neural network (PNN) to map the nonlinear relationship between the index system and stability level of loess. Furthermore, Leave-One-Out cross validation was applied for the training set to find the suitable smoothing factor. At last, the established model with the target smoothing factor 0.04 was applied for the test set, and a 100% prediction accuracy rate was obtained. This intelligent classification method for loess deposits can be easily conducted, which has wide potential applications in evaluating loess deposits.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 1999년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.47-78
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• 1999

About 440,000 $\textrm{km}^2$, about twice the size of the Korean Peninsula is covered by loess deposits in China. Along the middle reaches of the Huanghe River, mainly in Shaanxi and in Gansu province loess plateau covers vast area amounting to 273,000 $\textrm{km}^2$ Chinese studies on loess and loessial slopes are summarized. And some of the U. S. study and others are also presented for comparison.

• 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.

• 한국제4기학회지
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• 제18권2호통권23호
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• pp.67-73
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• 2004

Dissected erosional surfaces are widely distributed in the western part of Korea (e.g. Icheon, Chungju, Jecheon, Seosan). The deposits with thickness of less than 2m occur on the smooth bedrock surface are composed of poorly sorted subangular gravels with less than 20cm diameter. However, only weathered mantle of granites without the gravel layer are observed at some outcrops. The results of grain size analysis of deposits of Icheon district revealed that the characteristic of the gain size distribution is very similar with the results of sheetflood deposits presented by Blair (1999) in the Death Valley. Loess layer with buried soil layers of MIS7 covers the sheetflood deposits. The loess layer implies that the sheetflood deposits occurred before MIS7 based on the typical Loess sequences presented by Naruse et al.(2003). On the other hand, the climate of Korean Peninsula in MIS2 was very dry and cold (Yoon and Hwnag, 2003) by pollen analysis. This is because Yellow Sea was completely emerged during the MIS2(e.g. Sau\ito, 1998). So, it is thought that the climate in Korean Peninsula of not only MIS2 but also other glacial ages such as MIS8 was similar with present Mongolian climates. Tanaka et al.(2005) pointed out that Hortonian overlandflow occurs in grass vegetated granite basin in Mongolia. Therefore, dissected piedmont gentle slopes in the western Korea were possibly formed by sheetflood erosion during probably MIS8 as pediment widely distributed in Mongolia.

• 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.

• 한국제4기학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.57-68
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• 1997

Climatic change of the late-Quaternary period has been record-ed in the loess deposits of the central Great plains and the record of such change is extractable using a number of approaches and parameters. The stratigraphy of loess deposits which have been investigated on Fort Riley exhibits the same sequence of loess units and intercalated buried soils as is found elsewhere in the re-gion but adds detail unique to the reservation Upland late-Qua-ternary composite stratigraphy preserved on the reservation con-sists of the basal Sangamon soil of the Last interglacial(c. 120-110ka), Gilman Canyon Formation(c. >40 -20ka), Peoria loess(c. 20 -10ka) Brady soil(c. 11 -10ka) Bignell loess(c. 9-\ulcornerka). and mod-ern surface soil. Application of magnetic analyses has provided proxy data sets that represent a time series of climatically regulated pedogenesis/weathering and botanical composition. magetic data have yielded an impression of the variation in climate from Sangamon time to the late Holocene through a reconstruction of the history of pedogenesis/weathering. Sangamon soil formation dominated the reservation durin the Last interglacial as indicated by magnetic parameters. During Gil-man Canyon time loess influx was usually sufficiently slow as to permit pedogenesis which appears to have been at a maximum twice during that time. Warm season grasses were important dur-ing soil formation but diminished in importance during the peri-ods of more rapid loess fall which were cooler and perhaps wet-ter. Peoria loess fall a function of the deterioration of climate during the last Glacial Maximum thinly blanketed the reservation with thickest accumulations occurring to the north-west(Bala Cemetery site)proximal to the source region. Long-term surface stability did not apparently occur within Peoria time but short-term stability may be indicaed by the presence of thin weathering zones(incipient soils) in the Peoria loess. Re-gional landscape stability prevailed during the environmental shift at the Pleistocene/Holocene transition resulting in forma-tion of the well expressed Brady soil. One or more weak soils developed in the Bignell loess as it ac-cumulated. A notable feature of the Bignell loess is the appear-ance of the Altithermal dry period: the loess experienced little weathering and was dominated by warm season grasses until the latter of the Holocene.

• 한국제4기학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.77-79
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• 2007

The source regions of Asian Dusts (Yellow Sands) in the western part of China are investigated, and the soil samples are collected samples for approximately 15 days during the spring of 2005. Particle sizes of sediments are analyzed and compared with each other. These grain-size analyses from the source areas can be compared Particle sizes between loess deposits and desert sands in western part of China and desert areas show distinctive differences. Loess deposits are predominantly composed of fine sands and silts. The distinction between the final characteristics of Asian Dust particles arrived in Korea and characteristics during transportation can be recognized comparison with the Asian Dust particles collected where the dust particles settled down. The characteristics of Asian Dust particle sizes can provide the basic information regarding the transportation history from the source region.

• 한국지형학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.1-14
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• 2013

진천분지 하안단구면 상부에 퇴적되어 있는 뢰스-고토양 연속층인 진천단면을 대상으로 형성시기 및 입도조성과 기후변화 등 퇴적환경을 밝혔다. 진천단면은 상부에서 하부로 표층, 뢰스-고토양 연속층, 점이층 I, 점이층 II 그리고 하안단구 자갈층으로 이루어져 있다. OSL 연대측정 결과 뢰스-고토양 연속층은 MIS 6~4에 퇴적된 것으로 판단된다. 연속층은 대자율 변화에 기초하여 4개의 층준으로 구분된다. 입도분석 결과, 진천단면 뢰스-고토양 연속층은 지금까지 한국에서 보고된 뢰스 퇴적층과 입도조성이 유사하다. 특히 Y값은 중국 뢰스고원의 뢰스 및 고토양 층준보다는 작고, Red Clay 또는 양쯔강 하류의 Xiashu 뢰스와 유사하다. 이는 원거리 기원 또는 퇴적 이후 한반도에서 강한 풍화작용을 경험한데 기인한 것으로 생각된다.

• 대한지리학회지
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.1-19
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• 2011

대자율 및 입도 분석, OSL 연대측정, 주원소, 희토류 및 미량원소 분석을 통해 거창 정장리 뢰스-고토양의 물리, 화학적 특징을 파악하였다. 거창 뢰스-고토양 연속층의 입도 특성은 하안단구를 형성하는 하천퇴적층 그리고 중국 뢰스고원과는 차이를 보인다. 뢰스-고토양 층서 가운데 L1과 L1L1은 MIS 2, L1S1은 MIS 3, L1L2는 MIS 4, S1은 MIS 5, L2는 MIS 6에 대비되므로 거창단면이 위치하는 하안단구는 MIS 7에 형성된 것으로 판단된다. 다만 MIS 3 시기에 남부지방이 중부지방보다 더 온난습윤하였을 가능성이 있다. 주원소와 희토류 원소, 미량원소 조성은 거창의 뢰스-고토양이 중국 뢰스고원보다 풍화가 더 많이 진행되었으며 중국 뢰스고원에서 기원하였음을 지시한다. 이것은 한반도의 다른 지역에서 이루어진 연구 결과와 조화된다.

• 대한지하수환경학회지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.70-79
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• 1996

Friar Turk 폐탄광은 미국중서부의 가장복잡하게 교란된 광산 중의 하나이다. 버럭 및 광미 속에는 고농도의 황철석이 함유되어 있고, 황철석의 산화작용에 의해 토양 및 물이 산성화되고 식물의 성장이 제한되고 있다. 복구기술들에 대한 효과를 정량적으로 평가하기 위한 노력으로, 상세한 관측프로그램이 수행되었다. 물 시료들은 지표수, 지하수 및 불포화대의 간극수에서 5년간에 걸쳐 채취되었다. 그 결과에 의하면, spoil은 미약한 물 오염원이고, 버럭 더미는 지표수 및 지하수를 심각하게 오염시키는 원천이다. 그러나 버럭 더미 하부에 분포하는 loess 및 till은 오염된 물이 이동하는 것을 효과적으로 억제하였다. 버럭 더미 및 광미 표면층들은 수십 년간에 걸쳐 풍화된 결과로 층 내부보다는 독성이 약하였다. 산성광산폐수의 생성은 정점에 달한 상태이며 잠재적인 산성층은 아마도 광산폐기물의 불포화대에 분포하는 것으로 사료된다.