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Paleoenvironmental Research Using Diatoms from Core Sediments in the Heuksan Mud belt, Korea

흑산 니질대 코어퇴적물에서 산출된 규조를 이용한 고환경 연구

  • Bak, Young-Suk (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chonbuk National University) ;
  • Chang, Tae Soo (Petroleum and Marine Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
  • 박영숙 (전북대학교 자연과학대학 지구환경과학과) ;
  • 장태수 (한국지질자원연구원 석유해저연구본부)
  • Received : 2016.08.05
  • Accepted : 2016.09.22
  • Published : 2016.10.30
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Abstract

Three diatom assemblage zones were erected from HMB-103 core sediment of the Heuksan Mud Belt. The paleoenvironmental changes were reconstructed basing on diatom analyses using indicator species, cold and warm water species, and salinity. Seventy-six species belonging to 41 genera were identified in the core sediments. The number of diatom valves per gram of dry sediment ranged from 0.1 to $15.4{\times}10^4g^{-1}$. As a result, diatom assemblage I in about 45,000 yr B.P showed a high abundance in cold species indicating a major influence by the Korea Coastal Current. Diatom assemblage II from 14,000 to 11,646 yr B.P is characterized by rare abundance and indicative of the cold periods at Younger Dryas with the lower sea-level. However, diatom assemblage III from 11,646 yr B.P to Holocene was more affected by the Yellow Sea Warm Current while the progressive sea level rise.

흑산 니질대에서 채취한 코어 퇴적물 HMB-103으로부터 규조를 분석하여 3개의 규조 군집대를 설정하였고, 산출된 한랭수종과 온난수종, 염분도에 의해서 고환경을 해석하였다. 규조는 총 41속 76종이 감정되었으며 규조 개체수 농도는 $0.1-15.4{\times}10^4g^{-1}$ 의 범위에 해당된다. 연구 결과, 약 45,000 yr B.P.경까지의 규조 군집대 I에서는 한랭수종의 산출이 많은 것으로 보아 한국연안류의 영향을 주로 받았으며, 14,000부터 11,646 yr B.P경까지의 규조 군집대 II는 규조의 산출이 거의 없는 추운 시기(Younger Dryas)로 생각된다. 그러나, 11,646 yr B.P부터 홀로세까지의 규조 군집대 III 시기에는 해수면이 상승하면서 황해 난류의 영향을 더 많이 받았다.

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