Depositional Environments Of The Recent Sediments In The Hwajinpo Lake, Gangweondo, Korea

화진포 현생퇴적물의 퇴적환경에 관하여

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.

기수호인 화진포에 대한 생태학적인 연구가 여러 차례에 걸쳐 실시된 바 있으나( 홍사오외 1969; 엄규백, 1971, 1973; 전승관 외 1969; 변충규 외 1975) 현생퇴적물에 대한 퇴적환경적 연구는 실시된 바 없다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 화진포의 퇴적물에 대한 조직표준치와 분포 특성 및 호수퇴적물중에 포함된 점토광물의 종류와 호수퇴적물의 화학성분을 퇴적과정의 퇴적요인으로 하여 본 역의 현생퇴적환경특성을 밝히고자 한다.