• 한국지형학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.57-70
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• 2018

This study restores onshore paleo-shoreline records and establishes the nature and strain rate of neotectonism by investigating the existence and formative age of paleo-coastal sediments emerged around Sacheon-si in the Southern part of the Korean peninsula. As a result, paleo-sand bars representing 5m of the paleo-shoreline from high tide level are formed in Sacheon-si, and the formation age of these is confirmed as MIS 5c at approximately 100,000 year BP through rock surface luminescence dating to rounded gravels in paleo-sand bars. Although it is difficult to establish the uplift rate of crust precisely due to incomplete restoration of sea level records during the last interglacial stage, the uplift rate along the Southern coast of the peninsula was assumed approximately 0.72 lower than the Eastern coast during the late Quaternary in comparison to the 1st marine terrace along the Eastern coast.

• 한국지형학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.107-121
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• 2019

This study documents the distribution of (active) faults around the southern part of the Yangsan Fault and the Moryang Fault and the middle part of the Dongrae Fault. For this objective, we extracted lineaments and fault-related landforms by analyzing aerial photos and digital elevation models and with the result of fieldwork on fault-relating features of the Quaternary landforms. Geomorphological techniques for active fault study are not only preliminary but also essential methods because, in general, an active fault can be defined only with fault-deformed Quaternary sediments when there is no way to detect precise timing of faulting. Therefore, geomorphological interpretation in active fault research is necessary to determine the extent, direction, termination and timing of fault. This study addresses the results of such geomorphological analysis and geomorphic markers for tracing the active faults in the study area. It is plan to investigate with geophysical and geological techniques the sites referred in this study.

• 한국지형학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.67-79
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• 2019

This study documents the level of paleo-shoreline and the timing of formation of the lowest marine terrace (1st terrace) distributed in Dadaepo, Busan, South Korea. In the study area, the elevation of paleo-shoreline of the 1st terrace is clearly identified as 5 meters above mean high tide based on the elevation of wave-cut platforms and the elevation of boundary between marine and terrestial sediments. This is well consistent with the fact that are found along the Southern coast of the Korean Peninsula including Daepo-dong, Sacheon-si. The timing of formation of the 1st terrace in Dadaepo is confirmed to have been deposited around 70,000~80,000 years BP (MIS 5a) according to OSL and IRSL dating ages. However, because the formation age of the 1st terrace in Sacheon-si Daepo-dong (Southerm coast) and Pohang-si Umok-ri (Eastern coast) previously identified as about 90,000~100,000 years BP (MIS 5c), further discussion of what is needed. Possibly, it can be interpreted that the sub-interglacial (MIS 5a and 5c) sea-level records during the last interglacial period are likely to be selective on land depending on regions.

• 대한지리학회지
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• 제49권2호
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• pp.200-220
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• 2014

본 연구는 불분명하게 이해되는 경동성 요곡운동의 개념적 정의를 재검토하고, 현재까지 학계에서 통용되는 일반적 수준의 진술들을 비판적으로 검토하고 있다. 경동성 요곡운동의 재정의, 시간설정, 운동의 속성 그리고 발생요인과 과정에 대한 새로운 모델 제시가 주요 내용이다. '신생대 제3기 경동성 요곡운동'으로 흔히 일컬어지는 한반도 신기지반운동은 최소한 신제3기(23 Ma) 이후 진행된 동해안 지역의 융기-서해안 지역의 침강 패턴의 조륙운동으로 구체화시킬 수 있을 것으로 판단된다. 그러나 융기-침강의 지역적 경계는 한반도에 국한된 것이 아니라 중국 동북부 지역과 러시아 남부 지역에 걸쳐 광역적으로 분포한다. 이러한 융기-침강운동의 발생동력은 가설적으로 서태평양 섭입대의 활동과 관련한 맨틀 대류의 결과물로 설명하는 것이 가장 합리적이며, 판 경계 응력에 대응한 단층활동은 제4기 이후 한반도의 지역적 융기를 가속화시킨 것으로 볼 수 있다. 한반도 서해안의 현생 융기운동과 같이 여전히 남아있는 논쟁적인 부분들에 대한 보다 정교한 논의들은 현장에서부터 그 실체를 확인하는 작업이 선결되어야 할 것이다.