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High-p metamorphic belt in central China and its possible eastward extension to Korea

  • Xiaochun, Liu
    • The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.9-18
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    • 1993
  • The high-P metamorphic belt in central China, between the Sino-Korean and the Yangtze continental plates, is composed of the low-T and high-P metamorphic belt on the south and the high-T and high-P metamorphic belt on the north. The low-T and high-P metamorphic belt consists predominantly of bimodal metamorphic volcano-sedimentary sequences of Middle to Upper Proterozoic, characterized by the occurrences of blueschists, which have undergone a progressive metamorphism from blueschist through greenschist to epidote amphibolite facies with metamorphic conditions of 7~14 kb and 350~$560^{\circ}C$. The high-T and high-P and high-P metamorphic belt mainly consists of the Upper Archean to Lower Proterozoic crystalline basement characterized by the aboundant occurrences of eclogites formed at 12~28 kb and 620~$840^{\circ}C$. The formation of high-P metamorphic belt is related to the collision between the Sino-Korean and the Yangtze continental plates during Indosinian orogeny. The two belts may extend to central Korean Peninsula correlating respectively to the Okchon belt and the Kyonggi massif based on comparative studies of geography, tectonics and petrology. Therefore, much attention should be paid to search for such high-P metamorphic rocks as blueschists or eclogites in those two areas, which can play a key role for understanding the tectonic evolution of the Korean Peninsula.

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Metamorphic Evolution of the Ogcheon Metamorphic Belt: Review of Recent Studies and Remaining Problems (중부 옥천변성대의 변성진화: 최근의 연구결과 논평 및 문제점)

  • 조문섭;김현철
    • The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea
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    • v.11 no.3_4
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    • pp.121-137
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    • 2002
  • Metamorphic evolution of the Ogcheon metamorphic belt has been studied by many investigators for the past few decades. P-T conditions of the Ogcheon metamorphic belt were estimated as 4.2-9.4 kbar and $490-630^{\circ}C$, corresponding to the medium-pressure type. In addition, the clockwise P-T-t path suggests a crustal-thickening event in association with the formation of thrust nappes. However, some details on deformation and orogeny of the Ogcheon metamorphic belt have been ambiguous yet. Although the metamorphic age has been also equivocal, recent isotopic studies strongly suggest that the peak metamorphism in the Ogcheon metamorphic belt has occurred at ca. 300-280 Ma between Late Carboniferous and Early Permian. It is thus inferred that the Ogcheon metamorphic belt and the Taebaegsan basin have evolved as separate terranes and that both were sutured at ca. 250-220 Ma. These results are partly in contrast with those of previous workers and require a revised framework for tectonic evolution of the Ogcheon belt. In addition, it is likely that the Ogcheon belt is correlative with the Hida marginal belt and the Hida metamorphic belt.

Geochemistry of the Gneisses in the Jangsu Area, Jeonbuk, Korea (전북 장수지역에 분포하는 편마암류의 지구화학적 연구)

  • Son, Jeong-Mo;Shin, In-Hyun;Ahn, Kun-Sang
    • Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.58-71
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    • 2011
  • The precambrian gneisses are widely distributed in the Jangsu area. This study focuses on the metamorphic mineral assemblages and metamorphic P-T conditions of the gneiss. We have analyzed garnet, biotite and plagioclase among the gneiss through the EPMA analysis, and calculated the metamorphic temperature and pressure accordingly. The metamorphic temperature was estimated by the average of values from the garnet and biotite formulas, and the metamorphic pressure by value of the Hoisch(1990) geopressured on garnet-biotite-plagioclase. The mineral sample we examined shows garnet-biotite-plagioclase-quartz composite and garnet-plagioclase-orthoclase-quartz composite. Garnet shows almandine-pyrope solid solution in general, while porphyroblastic gneiss shows almandine-grossluar solid solution. The fact that the abundances, observed by garnet profile, are almost identical in both the central region and the outer egion indicates that the crystal was developed uniformly. There is almost negligible variance in biotite on metamorphic grade, and andesine is observed in plagioclase. The metamorphic temperature and pressure from EPMA analysis and its indications are as follows: the middle-temperature, high-pressure metamorphism ($500-650^{\circ}C$, 6.9-10 kbar) ensued in the beginning, and then was followed by the high-temperature, middle-pressure($600-740^{\circ}C$, 2.7-5.9 kbar) to ($500-540^{\circ}C$, 3.1 kbar) retrograde metamorphism.

Geological Structures of the Southern Jecheon, Korea: Uplift Process of Dangdusan Metamorphic Complex and Its Implication (옥천대 제천 남부의 지질구조: 당두산변성암복합체의 상승과정과 그 의미)

  • Kihm, You-Hong;Kim, Jeong-Hwan;Cheong, Sang-Won
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.302-314
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    • 2000
  • Keumseong area in the southern part of the Jecheon city, the Ogcheon Belt, consists of Precambrian Dangdusan Metamorphic Complex, Dori Formation of the Choseon Supergroup, and Jurassic Jecheon Granite. The Dangdusan Metamorphic Complex consists of quartz schist, mica schist. quartzite and pegmatite. The Dori Formation is composed of mainly laminated limestone. The rocks in the study area have been undergone at least three phases of deformations since Paleozoic period. The Dangdusan Metamorphic Complex is outcrop at three areas in the study area, which are exposed along the faults and occurred as inlier within the Dori Formation. Previous authors interpreted the uplift of the Dangdusan Metamorphic Complex by the Dangdusan Fault, but we could not find any evidences related to the Dangdusan Fault. Thus, we interpret the uplift of the Dangdusan Metamorphic Complex due to the D$_2$ Weolgulri and Dangdusan thrusts and post-D$_2$ Jungbodeul, Kokyo and Jungjeonri faults. The uplift of the Busan Metamorphic Complex to the west of the study area was interpreted by ductile deformation. However, the Dangdusan Metamorphic Complex is formed by brittle thrusts and faults in this study. According to deformation sequence, the characters of deformations in the Choseon and Ogcheon suprergroups had been changed from ductile to brittle deformations through the time. Therefore, we interpret the Dangdusan Metamorphic Complex is exposed later than the Busan Metamorphic Complex.

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The Age of the Okcheon Metamorphic Belt-How Much Do We Know? (옥천 변성대의 시기-우리는 얼마만큼 알고 있나?)

  • Kwon, Sung-Tack
    • The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.51-56
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    • 2008
  • The geologic age of the Okcheon metamorphic belt, used to be a longstanding puzzle, has been settled down to Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic with discovery of fossils and isotopic age dating of metavolcanic rocks. As isotopic ages become accumulated, there appeared a controversy over the age of peak metamorphism in the Okcheon metamorphic belt, i.e., a single late Permian-early Triassic metamorphism (CHIME allanite age and U-Pb age of metamorphic zircon), or earlier independent presence of early Permian metamorphism (U-Pb age of allanite within garnet porphyroblast). If we compare the isotopic ages that can represent metamorphism, the data for the latter have much larger error than those of the former with some overlap considering the error limits. It means that, the former, supported by two independent ages, is considered a better representation for the age of metamorphism of the Okcheon metamorphic belt. Therefore, I propose the idea of early Permian metamorphism should better be reserved until conclusive evidence appears. The late Permian-early Triassic metamorphic age suggest that the effect of continental collision influenced much of the middle part of Korean Peninsula, namely, the Imjingang belt, the Gyeonggi massif and the Okcheon belt.

Occurrence of Post-larvae and Juveniles of Laeops kitaharae (Bothidae, Pleuronectiformes) in Korea (한국산 흰비늘가자미의 후기 자어와 치어 출현)

  • Youn, Chang-Ho;Huh, Sung-Hoi;Kim, Ik-Soo
    • Korean Journal of Ichthyology
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.200-206
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    • 1998
  • Several specimens belonging to the family Bothidae were collected by trawls in Kwangyang Bay and off Kadeok Island in March 1996 and June 1998. These specimens were confirmed to be the post-larvae and juveniles of Laeops kitaharae (Smith and Pope, 1906) that have not been reported in Korea. According to the Amaoka's criterion (1972), four specimens belong to the middle metamorphic post-larval stage, one specimen to the late metamorphic post-larval stage, and two specimens to the juvenile stage. The middle metamorphic post-larval stage can be distinguished from the late metamorphic post-larval stage by the characters such as a notch between foreside of the dorsal fin and dorsal region of the right eye, and greatly elongated second spine of the dorsal fin. In the juvenile stage, the intestine was not externally exposed. However, the early metamorphic post-larval stage was not occurred in this study.

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High Performance 50 nm Metamorphic HEMTs for Millimeter-wave Applications (밀리미터파 응용을 위한 우수한 성능의 50 nm Metamorphic HEMTs)

  • Ryu, Keun-Kwan;Kim, Sung-Chan
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.116-120
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    • 2012
  • We reported on a high performance InGaAs/InAlAs metamorphic HEMT with 50 nm gate length on a GaAs substrate. The fabricated $50nm{\times}60{\mu}m$ MHEMT showed good DC and RF characteristics. Typical drain current density of 740 mA/mm and extrinsic transconductance(gm) of 1.02 S/mm were obtained with our devices. The current gain cut-off frequency(fT) and maximum oscillation frequency(fmax) obtained for the fabricated MHEMT device were 430 GHz and 406 GHz, respectively.

Fabrication and Characterization of $0.2\mu\textrm{m}$ InAlAs/InGaAs Metamorphic HEMT's with Inverse Step-Graded InAlAs Buffer on GaAs Substrate

  • Kim, Dae-Hyun;Kim, Sung-Won;Hong, Seong-Chul;Paek, Seung-Won;Lee, Jae-Hak;Chung, Ki-Woong;Seo, Kwang-Seok
    • JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.111-115
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    • 2001
  • Metamorphic InAlAs/InGaAs HEMT are successfully demonstrated, exhibiting several advantages over conventional P-HEMT on GaAs and LM-HEMT on InP substrate. The strain-relaxed metamorphic structure is grown by MBE on the GaAs substrate with the inverse-step graded InAlAs metamorphic buffer. The device with 40% indium content shows the better characteristics than the device with 53% indium content. The fabricated metamorphic HEMT with $0.2\mu\textrm{m}$T-gate and 40% indium content shows the excellent DC and microwave characteristics of $V_{th}-0.65V,{\;}g_{m,max}=620{\;}mS/mm,{\;}f_T120GHZ{\;}and{\;}f_{max}=210GHZ$.

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Conceptual Structure Analysis of Metamorphic Rock by Earth Science Teachers Using Semantic Network Analysis (언어네트워크분석을 활용한 지구과학교사들의 변성암에 대한 개념 구조 분석)

  • Duk Ho Chung;Chul Min Lee
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.43 no.6
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    • pp.762-776
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    • 2022
  • The purpose of this study was to determined the conceptual structure used by earth science teachers to classify metamorphic rocks as well as the criteria applied in the process of classifying metamorphic rocks. To this end, the researchers collected verbal data uttered in the process of classifying metamorphic rock using think-aloud from 21 earth science teachers in middle and high schools in Jeollabuk-do, Republic of Korea. The collected verbal data were analyzed using the semantic network analysis method, and the following results were obtained. First, in the process of classifying metamorphic rocks, earth science teachers classified them based on characteristics such as color, compositional minerals, and particle size, which can be generally observed in rocks, and foliation that appears in metamorphic rocks. Second, earth science teachers recognize the classification criteria for metamorphic rocks and focus on metamorphism such as contact metamorphism or regional metamorphism. However, there were cases where rocks were mistakenly classified through incorrect identification. Therefore, it is necessary to provide sufficient observational information about, and experience of, metamorphic rocks to enable earth science teachers to recognize and relate to the scientific process of identifying metamorphic rocks through the phenomena observed.