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EFFECTS OF THE POLLUTION ON THE BENTHIC MACROFAUNA IN MASAN BAY, KOREA (馬山灣의 海洋汚染이 底棲動物群集에 미치는 影響)

  • Hong, Jae-sang;Lee, Jae Hac
    • 한국해양학회지
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.169-179
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    • 1983
  • Distribution of soft-bottom macrobenthos en Masan Bay was studied in terms of seasonal changes in species composition, abundance, and diversity from August, 1980 to May, 1981. Of the 65 species ot benthic macrofauna observed, polychaete was the most dominant taxonomic group with 34 species, which accounted for 72% of the total number of benthic animals. Species richness and numerical abundance seemed to decrease from the outer Bay stations to the innermost bay station, where certain zoological groups such as crustaceans and echinoderms were eliminated. Based on the ecological indices calculated, the inner basins of the Masan Bay apparently receive high input levels of organic material derived from land drainage, domestic wastes, and industrial complex installed in Masan city and nearby urban area. Particularly, at two inner bay stations of the Masan Bay, these levels seemed to approach the limit of the degradative capacity of the muddy bottom ecosystem, and have significantly affected the characteristics and distfibution of the benthic macrofauna.

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Depositional Environments Of The Recent Sediments In The Hwajinpo Lake, Gangweondo, Korea (화진포 현생퇴적물의 퇴적환경에 관하여)

  • Jung, Woo Yeol;Park, Yong Ahn
    • 한국해양학회지
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.64-70
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    • 1976
  • Forty four dredged surface sediments from the bottom of the Hwajinpo Lake and its vicinity were investigated in terms of the sedimentary depositional environment. The characteristics of the sedimentary textures, chemistry and clay mineralogy of these sediments were analysed by X-ray diffraction, chemical (EDTA titration and atomic absorption), sieving and pipette techniques. The lake sediments were chiefly mud and the beach sediments were sand. However, the lake sediments from its seaward zone were sand or muddy sand. The textural parameters that is, mean size, sorting value and their pair diagram seems to be characteristic in the area studied. Based on these data it seems to be reasonable thatthe Hwajinpo Lake was developed by the accretion and growth of a barrier spit along the shore investigated. The chief clay minerals identified were kaolinite, muscovite and the presence of vermiculite was believed as minor composition. The major chemical compositions of these sediments, that is, SiO$\sub$2/, Al$\sub$2/O$\sub$3/, Fe$\sub$2/O$\sub$3/, CaO, Na$\sub$2/O and K$\sub$2/O were contained in unit sample. The ratio of alumina to sodium oxide as a chemical index seems to indicate that the inner lake sediments are more mature than the outer one.

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Analysis about Fill Deposit Poor Drainage through Permeability Test and Groundwater Monitoring (투수시험과 지하수 모니터링을 통한 매립층의 배수불량 원인 분석)

  • Jung, Hee-Suk;Lee, Kang-Il;Kim, Joon-Seok
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.165-173
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    • 2018
  • Purpose: The area such as historic sites where distributed in the hills surrounded by the mountains in the past, if heavy rains occur, soil that distributed in the substructure of a sedimentary layer's permeability decreases therefore, water do not smoothly drainage and increases surface structures' moisture content. Therefore, many phenomena occur such as the muddy ground. This experiment tried to figure out the cause of poor drainage, predicting poor drainage system when rainfall occur. So not only the base of cultural properties distributed in the historic site, but also have big influences on the upper structure. Method: We are going to propose an improvement plan through the various sites exploration and the field permeability test. In addition, analyze interrelationship to figure out the cause of the poor drainage through monitoring under ground water. Conclusion: As the result of the experiment, the cause of the poor drainage system formed on shallow depth of ground level inside of a land. We can see that soil of surface and fill deposit permeability was in poor condition. Therefore, it was in very inappropriate hydrogeological condition when surface water permeate into the underground when rainfall occurs.

Long-term Changes of Sediment and Topography at the Southern Kanghwa Tidal Flat, West Coast of Korea (한국 서해안 강화 남부 갯벌 퇴적물 및 지형의 장기적인 변화)

  • Woo, Han Jun
    • Journal of Wetlands Research
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.493-500
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    • 2013
  • Comparisons of surface sediment distributions in summer 1997 and 2011 and elevations on the tidal flats in April 1998 and March 2013 had been used for understanding the long-term changes of sedimentary environments at southern Kanghwa tidal flat, west coast of Korea. The mud sediments dominated in the eastern part and sandy mud sediments dominated in the western part of the tidal flat in 1997. In 2011, the surface sediments were dominant mud and sandy mud at Sunduri and Tonggum in the eastern part, sandy mud at Tongmakri in the middle part, and sand and muddy sand at Yeochari and Changhwari tidal flats in the western part. The area of mud sediments had decreased, but that of sand-mud mixed sediments extended to eastward tidal flat for 14 years. The long-term topographic changes showed that deposition occurred at Tongmakri and Yeochari and erosion occurred at Changhwari tidal flat during 15 years. These changes should be effected the local hydrodynamic changes by several constructions near the tidal flat since the 1990s.

The design of 111m high steel towers with 220kv double circuits crossing 12 km wide Bangladesh River (230KV 2회선승 111M 높이 철탑설계 (I) (강폭 12km인 Bangladesh Jamana강 횡단용))

  • 이재숙
    • Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.12-24
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    • 1982
  • East Parts of Bangladesh have been benifited by low cost energy generated by domestic natural gas but West parts where energy generated by imported fuel. Bangladesh Government authority has very much concerned to transmit the low cost electricity to the West from the East for past several years. To solve such concerns, cross-country 230kv double circuits Power transmission line was proposed, however there was a big obstacle for the realization of this line to cross the Jamuna river which has 12 km long width with a deep muddy river bed. A consultant engineering firm named Merz-Mclellan anyway finalized this plan and a world-wide bid was announced on June 31, 1979. Due to the expected difficulty to construct the towers on sea like area, only three construction groups have participated. including a Korean joint venture organization of Samsung-Korean Developement corporation-Kolon Electric Machinery company. After 3 months bid evaluation, contract was awarded to Korean Consosium and KEM Co was in charge of designing steel towers with anchor bolts and base plates beside to electrical engineering field. Then KEM Co have faced and over-comed many unenpected technical difficulties such as forced eccentricity joint on base plate, distorsion issue of 60mm thick plates welding, threading anchor bolts, tad heat treatment of some anchor bolts, disagreement from Consultant Engineer on multiplying factor of leg stresses for 45$^{\circ}$ wind and on reducing O.L.F for wind loads on cables for such 1220km long spans. After spending two years long period for designing and engineering towers, base plates, and anchor bolts, first shipment of tower was finally realized on Nov. 8, 1981 and on the other hand KDD has proceeded concrete caisson work on schedule at Jamuna river site and expected to complete tower erection and stringing of cables within this year of 1982 which was original completion target.

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Population Ecology of Abbottina springeri(Cyprinidae) in the Musimchon stream, Korea (무심천 왜매치 Abbottina springeri의 개체군 생태)

  • Son, Yeong-Mok
    • Korean Journal of Ichthyology
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.186-191
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    • 2000
  • Population ecology of Abbottina springeri has been investigated from March to November, 1995 at Musimchon stream of Kadok-myon, Chongwon-gun, Chungchongbug-do. The favorite habitat was a sluggish area with muddy bottom, but larger individuals more than 60 mm in total length were also collected at rapids of low velosity. Judging from the total length frequency in this population on June, total length 30~50 mm group is one year old, 50~65 mm group is two years old, and longer than 65 mm is regarded over three years old. Sexual dimorphism was revealed conspicuously in genital papilla, nuptial tuberles and nuptial pigmentation in the males at spawning season. Peak season of spawning was June when the water temperature reaches $20\sim25^{\circ}C$ and they start spawning at the age of two. The sex ratio of female to male was 1:0.93. The mean of egg number and egg size in ovary were 652 and 0.43~0.06 mm respectively. According to the contents of stomach, this species feeds mainly on botton algae at all ages and some aquatic insects in adult.

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Evaluation of Organic Matter and Trace Metal Contaminations of Intertidal Sediments from Coastal Islands in the Southern Region of Jeollanam Province (전남 남부 도서갯벌 퇴적물의 유기물 및 미량금속 오염 평가)

  • Hwang, Dong-Woon;Kim, Pyoung-Joong
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.46 no.5
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    • pp.626-637
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    • 2013
  • We measured the grain size, ignition loss (IL), chemical oxygen demand (COD), acid volatile sulfide (AVS) and trace metals (Al, Fe, Cu, Pb, Zn, Cd, Cr, Mn, Hg, and As) of intertidal surface sediment collected from 11 islands (62 stations) in the southern region of Jeollanam Province. The objective of this research was to evaluate the organic matter and trace metals contaminations of sediments from coastal island tidal flats. Surface sediment texture was characterized as follows: mud, sandy silt, muddy sand, and slightly gravelly sand facies. The finer sediments are mainly dominated in the northern part of each island. The concentrations of IL, COD, AVS and some trace metals (Al, Fe, Zn, Cr, Cu, and Hg) were higher in the northwestern part of Wan Island and the area between Gogeum and Sinji Islands, and were associated with relatively finer sediment, as compared to other locations. The concentrations of Mn, Pb, Cd, and As were higher in the northwestern and southeastern parts of Geoguem and Pyungil Islands, but were not correlated with mean grain size. Based on sediment quality guidelines (SQGs), the concentrations of trace metals were lower than the values of effect range low (ERL), used in United States, and threshold effects level (TEL), used in Korea, with exception of As. Similarly, the intertidal sediments were moderately contaminated with As, based on the the enrichment factor (EF) and the geoaccumulation index ($I_{geo}$). The high concentration of As in intertidal sediments from this study region may be due to the input of naturally or artificially contaminated submarine groundwater, contaminated waste from seaweed aquaculture operations and/or land-based seaweed processing facilities. Further studies are needed to identify the sources of As in this study region, and to determine the effects of As contamination on coastal ecosystem.

A study on microwave scattering characteristics in intertidal flats using polarimetric SAR (다편광 SAR 자료를 이용한 조간대 표면 퇴적물에서의 마이크로파 산란 특성 연구)

  • Park, Sang-Eun;Kim, Duk-Jin;Moon, Woo-Il M.
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.271-276
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    • 2006
  • In this paper a polarimetric airborne SAR measurement has been used to study the radar polarimetric characteristics in the intertidal area on the south coastof the Korea. The L-band NASA/JPL airborne SAR (AIRSAR) data, which were acquired on the intertidal zone during PACRIM-II Korea campaign on September 30, 2000, were used for this research. The most intertidal zones of Yeoja Bay are composed of muddy soils with high silt and clay percentage. Models of microwave scattering from rough surfaces, i.e., semi-empirical model, and Extended Bragg model, were applied to investigate the surface characteristics of intertidal zones.

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Sedimentary Environment of Bimodal Shelf Sediments: Southern continental shelf of Korean Peninsula (복모드 대륙붕 퇴적물의 퇴적환경 연구: 한반도 남해대륙붕)

  • 방효기;민건홍
    • 한국해양학회지
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 1995
  • The modal analysis was carried out for the total of 216 subface sediments of southern continental shelf of Korean peninsula. Sandy mud or muddy sand distributed in the range of 70∼100 m water depth revealed the bimodal type (sand and mud components). The relations of textural parameters obtained from every modal were consistent with those of shallow marine sediments. The characteristics of sand component between bimodal were as follows: (1) the distributions of mean grain size, sorting, shell content were repeatedly distributed like the directions of depth contour lines. (2) Sand component was composed of medium to fine sand (Mz, 1-3$\psi$) containing many shell fragments, a few pebbles, and iron-stained quartz. (3) The surface of quartz revealed the concordial breakage and V-shaped features formed at high energy environment. (4) In CM-pattern, sand component was plotted in rolling and bottom suspension area. These characteristics imply that sand component probably derives from shoreface sediments deposited at the beach environment.

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A Study on the Nutrient Release Characteristics from Sediments in Nak-dong River (낙동강 퇴적물에서 영양염류 용출특성에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Kyu Yeol;Lee, Kwon Choel;Kim, Ju Eon;Kim, Shin;Ahn, Jung Min;Im, Tae Hyo
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.644-652
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    • 2015
  • In this study the releasing of nutrients from sediments of Nak-dong River were investigated. We perfomed lab-scale simulation experiments using field sediment and ware. Nutrients, orgarni matter, particle size of the sediments and nutrients of released water were analyzed. Analyzed results of the sediments, mainly composed of mS(muddy Sand) sedimentary facies and IL were 2.46~6.83%, T-N were 1.189~2.492 mg/kg, and T-P were 333~726 mg/kg in the study area. Analyzed results of the nutrients of released water, pH and TOC were each 7.8~9.2% and 31.7~40.8% decreased after 20 days. T-N increased steadily, and NH3-N increased steadily then decreased, at this time NO3-N increase. Also NH3-N increased steadily, then decreased at this time. Furthermore release of phosphorus were mostly decreased.