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Tephrostratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of Marine Core in the Kita-Yamato Trough, East Sea/Japan Sea

동해 키타-야마토 해곡에서 채취된 시추코아의 테프라층서와 고환경

  • Chun Jong-Hwa (Petroleum & Marine Resources Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineralk Resources) ;
  • Cheong Daekyo (Department of Geology, Kangwon National University) ;
  • Han Sang-Joon (Marine Geo-Resource Research Division, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute) ;
  • Huh Sik (Marine Geo-Resource Research Division, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute) ;
  • Yoo Hai-Soo (Marine Geo-Resource Research Division, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute)
  • 천종화 (한국지질자원연구원 석유해저자원연구부) ;
  • 정대교 (강원대학교 지질학과) ;
  • 한상준 (한국해양연구원 해저환경연구사업단) ;
  • 허식 (한국해양연구원 해저환경연구사업단) ;
  • 유해수 (한국해양연구원 해저환경연구사업단)
  • Published : 2006.02.01
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Abstract

The Kita-Yamato Trough is characterized by a SW-NE trending narrow graben between the Yamato Bank and the Kita-Yamato Bank in the central East Sea/Japan Sea (ES/JS). Core 20EEZ-1 was obtained in the flat summit of a small ridge from the southwest Kita-Yamato Trough. The sedimentation was mainly controlled by the supply of hemipelgic sediments and substantial tephras from explosive volcanic eruptions of the Quaternary volcanoes. The aim of this study is to reconstruct the tephrostratigraphy from the marine sediments collected from the Kita-Yamato Trough and to provide the atmosphere and ocean conditions during the explosive volcanic eruptions. According to the detailed tephrostratigraphy and lithofacies records, the core sediments were deposited during the last marine isotope stage (MIS) 7. The core consists of four lithofacies, idetified as, oxidized mud (OM), crudely laminated mud (CLM) and bioturbated mud (BM), interbedded with coarse-grained tephra (TP). The major element geochemistry and stratigraphic positions of seven tephra layers suggest that they originated from the Aira caldera in Kyushu area among the Japanese islands (AT tephra; 29.24 ka), unknown submarine volcano in the south Korea Plateau (SKP-I; MIS 3, SKP-II; MIS 4, SKP-IV; boundary between MIS 6 and MIS 5e, SKP-V; MIS 6, respectively), and the Baegdusan volcano in the Korean Peninsula (B-KY1; ca. 130 ka, B-KY2; ca. 196 ka). The absence of tephras originated trom Ulleung Island in core 20EEZ-l suggest that the tephras had not been transported into the Kita-Yamato Trough by atmosphere conditions during the eruptions. On the other hand, the B-KYI and the B-KY2 tephras derived from the Baegdusan volcano were founded in the Kita-Yamato Trough by a presence of prevailing westerly winds during the eruptions. Furthermore, the SKP tephras were characterized by the transport across the air-water interface, causing quickly thrust of raising eruption plumes from subaqueous explosive eruptions. Surface currents may play an important role in controlling the distribution patterns of the SKP tephras to distal areas. The tephrostratigraphic study in the Kita-Yamato Trough provides the important chronostratigraphic marker horizons and the detailed atmosphere and ocean conditions during the explosive eruptions.

동해 중부에 위치하는 키타-야마토 해곡은 야마토 뱅크와 키타-야마토 뱅크 사이에 형성된 좁고 긴 남서-북동 방향의 지구이다. 20EEZ-1 시추퇴적물은 키타-야마토 해곡의 남서쪽 가장자리에 위치하는 해령의 평탄한 정상부에서 채취되었다. 이 시추퇴적물은 반원양성 퇴적물로 구성되어 있으며, 폭발적인 화산활동에 의해서 공급된 테프라들을 포함한다. 이 연구의 목적은 키타-야마토 해곡에서 채취된 시추퇴적물의 테프라층서를 복원하고, 시추퇴적물에 포함된 테프라의 종류에 의해서 화산활동 당시의 대기환경과 해양환경을 밝히는 것이다. 20EEA-1 시추퇴적물은 테프라층서 복원과 퇴적상의 해석에 의해서 그 연대가 동위원소층서(marine isotope stage; MIS) 7에 해당되는 것으로 해석되었다. 이 시추퇴적물은 최상부에 산회된 뻘 퇴적상이 발달하며, 그 하부에 암색의 희미한 층리가 발달된 뻘 퇴적상과 담색의 생물교란된 뻘 퇴적상이 교호하고 테프라들이 협재한다. 이 시추퇴적물에 포함된 테프라는 주요 원소함량 분석과 층서적 관계를 고려하였을때, 일본 큐슈 지방의 아이라(Aira) 칼데라로부터 기원된 AT 테프라(29.24ka), 동해 한국대지에 위치하는 해저화산으로부터 기원된 SKP-I (MIS 3), SKP-II(MIS 4), SKP-IV(MIS 6과 MIS 5e 경계)와 SKP-V(MIS 6) 테프라, 백두산 기원의 B-KY1(약 130ka)과 B-KY2(약 196ka) 테프라로 해석되었다. 20EEZ-1 시추퇴적물에서는 울릉도 기원의 테프라가 관찰되지 않는데, 키타-야마토 해곡 지역은 울릉도 화산 활동에 의한 테프라의 대기를 통한 이동 경로에 포함되지 않음을 지시한다. 백두산 기원의 테프라는 분출 당시의 편서풍이 키타-야마토 해곡 지역까지 영향이 있었음을 지시한다. 그리고 한국대지에 위치하는 해저화산으로부터 해저 분출로 공급된 SKP테프라는 표층 해류에 의해서 키타-야마토 해곡까지 장거리 이동이 일어났다. 키타-야마토 해곡에서의 테프라층서 연구는 시추퇴적물의 시간층서 복원과 함께 테프라의 분출 당시의 해양과 대기의 고환경 해석에 도움을 준다.

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