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Deposional Age of the Bangnim Group, Pyeongchang, Korea Constrained by SHRIMP U-Pb Age of the Detrital Zircons

쇄설성 저어콘의 SHRIMP U-Pb 연령으로 한정한 평창지역 방림층군의 퇴적시기

  • Gwak, Mu-Seong (Department of Earth Environmental Sciences, Pukyong National University) ;
  • Song, Yong-Sun (Department of Earth Environmental Sciences, Pukyong National University) ;
  • Park, Kye-Hun (Department of Earth Environmental Sciences, Pukyong National University)
  • 곽무성 (부경대학교 지구환경과학과) ;
  • 송용선 (부경대학교 지구환경과학과) ;
  • 박계헌 (부경대학교 지구환경과학과)
  • Received : 2017.03.02
  • Accepted : 2017.03.26
  • Published : 2017.03.31
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Abstract

We determined SHRIMP U-Pb ages of the detrital zircons separated from the Bangnim Group of the Pyeongchang area to constrain its depositional age. As the result, the minimum age group yielded $^{206}Pb/^{238}U$ age of $450.3{\pm}4.2Ma$ (n=3), suggesting depositional age younger than Late Ordovician. Therefore, the Bangnim Group cannot be a Precambrian sedimentary formation but is younger than Myobong Formation of the Early Paleozoic Joseon Supergroup of the Taebaeksan basin. Such a depositional age implies that the Bangnim Group and structurally overlying Jangsan Quartzite should be in fault contact, suggesting that the Jangsan Quartzite, Myobong Formation and Pungchon Limestone thrusted over the Bangnim Group. The zircon U-Pb age distribution pattern of the Bangnim Group resembles those of the Early Paleozoic Myobong and Sambangsan Formations of the Taebaeksan basin and seemingly Middle Paleozoic Daehyangsan Quartzite and the Taean Formation. However, detrital zircon U-Pb age patterns of the Late Paleozoic Pyeongan Supergroup are quite distinct from them, suggesting drastic change in provenance of the detrital zircon supply. Therefore, we suggest that the Bangnim Group was deposited before the Pyeongan Supergroup.

평창지역에 분포하는 시대미상 방림층군의 퇴적시기를 한정하기 위하여 쇄설성 저어콘의 SHRIMP U-Pb 연대측정을 수행하였다. 그 결과 일치곡선상에 놓이는 최소연령 집단의 $^{206}Pb/^{238}U$ 연령은 $450.3{\pm}4.2Ma$(n=3)으로 구해졌으며, 퇴적시기는 후기 오르도비스기 이후임을 지시한다. 따라서 방림층군은 선캠브리아기 지층이 아님이 명백하며, 태백산분지의 하부고생대 조선누층군의 하부 지층인 묘봉층 보다도 젊은 층이어야 한다. 이러한 퇴적시기는 구조적으로 위에 놓인 장산규암층과 방림층군과의 관계가 단층이어야 함을 의미한다. 따라서 인접하여 분포하는 조선누층군의 하부 멤버들인 장산규암층과 묘봉층 및 풍촌석회암층이 방림층군 위로 오버트러스트한 것으로 추정된다. 방림층군의 저어콘들이 보이는 연대분포 양상은 태백산분지의 하부고생대층인 묘봉층과 삼방산층, 그리고 중부고생대층으로 판단되는 대향산규암층 및 태안층 등과는 매우 유사하다. 이에 반해 상부고생대인 평안누층군의 것들과는 뚜렷하게 차이가 난다. 이는 쇄설성 저어콘 근원지가 평안누층군 퇴적이전과 이후에 확실하게 달라졌음을 의미한다. 따라서 방림층군은 평안누층군 보다 이전에 퇴적된 것으로 추정된다.

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