• 암석학회지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.261-272
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• 2014

지난 ~30년 동안 가속기질량분석기와 비활성기체질량분석기 기술의 진보와 함께, 우주선유발 동위원소도 지표면의 연대측정 분야에 광범위하게 적용되어 왔다. 우주선유발 동위원소를 이용한 세부적인 연대측정법으로는 단순노출연대측정, 수직단면연대측정, 매몰연대측정 등이 있어, 다양한 노출(또는 퇴적) 환경에 따라, 다른 접근법이 요구된다. 국내에 적용 가능한 대상으로는, 하안단구, 해안단구, 선상지, 화산지형, 구조지형(단층애), 다양한 암설지형(테일러스, 암괴류 등), 호안 또는 해안 파식대 그리고, 제3기의 퇴적분지층과 고고학유물층에도 적용이 가능하다. 아울러, 기존의 석영이 풍부한 화강암과 변성암 중심에서, 최근에는 석회암과 화산암에도 적용가능하게 되었다.

• 한국지형학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.21-31
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• 2019

Timing of terrace formation is a key information for understanding the evolution of fluvial systems. In particular, dating strath terrace (i.e. timing of terrace abandonment) is more difficult than depositional terrace that is conventionally constrained by radiocarbon, OSL and other dating methods targeting samples within terrace deposit. Surface exposure dating utilizing cosmogenic ¹⁰Be provides more reliability because it can be applied directly to the surface of a fluvial terrace. Thus, this method has been increasingly used for alluvial deposits. As well as other geomorphic surfaces over the last decades. Some inherent conditions, however, such as post-depositional ¹⁰Be concentration (i.e. inheritance), surface erosion rate, and density change challenge the application of cosmogenic ¹⁰Be to depositional terrace surface against simple bedrock surface. Here we present the first application of ¹⁰Be depth profile dating to a thin-gravel covered strath terrace in Korea. Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) helped us in better constraining the timing of abandonment of the strath terrace, since which its surface stochastically denuded with time, causing unexpected change of ¹⁰Be production with depth. The age of the strath terrace estimated by MCS was 109 ka, ~4% older than the one (104 ka) calculated by simple depth profile dating, which yielded the best-fit surface erosion rate of 2.1 mm/ka. Our study demonstrates that the application of ¹⁰Be depth profile dating of strath terrace using MCS is more robust and reliable because it considers post-depositional change of initial conditions such as erosion rate.