• The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.133-141
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• 2004

We have studied the characteristics of rock cleavage for the Pocheon granite with Jurassic emplacement age. Photomicrographs were used to observe and analyze microcracks from the granite. Three sets of microcrack planes are recognized; (1) the rift plane developed parallel to the principal sets of microcracks, (2) the grain plane parallel to the secondary sets of microcracks, (3) the hardway plane perpendicular to both rift and grain planes. The microcracks developed in the granite shows higher polution, mean length and density in the order of rift plane, grain plane and hardway plane. The fracturing characteristics of the granite are closely related to the development of these three planes.

• The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.119-125
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• 2004

Using a SHRIMP ion microprobe, we have dated zircon grains of a felsic meta-tuff from the so-cal1ed Munjuri Formation, Ogcheon metamorphic belt. The weighted mean $^{206}$ Pb/$^{238}$ U zircon ages obtained from 13 spot analyses of 10 grains provide an essentially concordant age of 747${\pm}$7Ma. This result corroborates the conventional U-Pb zircon age (756${\pm}$1Ma; Lee et al., 1998) for the Neoproterozoic bimodal volcanism in the Ogcheon belt. Thus, proto-basins associated with intracontinental, high-volcanicity rift in the Ogcheon belt are most likely to have formed at ca. 750 Ma.

• The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.207-209
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• 2003

The Honam Shear Zone, an important feature in the Phanerozoic geologic history of Korea, has attracted much attention due to its potential tectonic significance. However, little has been known about the displacement amount of the shear zone. Here, we propose a possible displacement marker for the shear zone. The geographic position and peculiar lithology of the Sancheong and Gaya anorthosite bodies in the south-central part of Korea suggest a NE-trending dextral strike slip shear zone that has a displacement of ca. 50 km. This hypothetical shear zone is considered as a part of the Honam Shear Zone since the former has the same trend and shear sense as the latter.

• The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.307-314
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• 2009

Zapla iron ore bodies in Jujuy state, northern Argentina are located within Paleozoic Silurian marine sedimentary rocks and can be categorized into ironstone deposit. Iron ores contain oolitic hematite as main iron mineral as well as siderite and chamosite. Hematite replaced biotite and/or muscovite along their cleavage or grain boundary, which indicates hematite is precipitated by chemical reaction. Silurian basins in northern Argentina has high potential resources for ironstone deposit but economic aspects of ore body can be controlled by magnitude of lateral vertical extensions and local grade variation of iron beds.

• The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.178-184
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• 1995

The K-Ar ages of biotites, obtained from thirteen pelitic schists in the Jeungpyeong-Deokpyeong area, central Ogcheon metamorphic belt, range from 89 Ma to 213 Ma except for one specimen. These K-Ar ages systematically decrease as the distance between the analyzed specimen and the Jurassic or Creataceous granite decreases. The K-Ar ages of b~otites adjacent to the Jurassic and Cretaceous granites are 166 Ma and 89 Ma, respectively. Thus, the biotite ages are interpreted to result from the partial or complete resetting by thermal activities in association with the intrusion of Mesozoic granites, following the regional-thermal metamorphism at Late Triassic to Early Jurassic times.

• The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.124-133
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• 1995

Oxygen isotope compositions have been determined for the granitic and the related rocks from the Wolf River Ratholith, Wisconsin in U.S.A. Plutons which belong to the differentiation trend are almost identical in oxygen isotope fractionation, and plutons of undifferential sequences also show oxygen isotope compositions similar to each other, which show little isotope fractionations at high temperature range. In oxygen osotope composition, the country rocks (the Penokean plutonic rocks), which is higher by 1~2 permil than the batholith are improbable source of the batholith. However, the assimilation of parent magma of lower ${\delta}^{18}O$ values than the batholith with the Penokean plutonic rocks might have produced the batholith.

• The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.186-200
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• 1995

구상구조를 보이는무주 구상편마암은 전북 무주군 왕정리일대에 분포하는 정편마암인 함전기석 복운모 화강편마암내에 배태되어 있다. 구상구조는 구상편마암의 기원암인 화강암내에 포획된 이질암이 변성분화작용을 받아 생성된 것으로 사료된다. 구상편마암은 각의 발달이 없는 초생암구로 구성된 TypeI의 암구와 각의 발딜이 있는 TypeII로 구분이 가능하다. TypeII는 단각암구와 다각암구 그리고 핵의 구조에 따라 다양한 형태로 나눌수 이TEk. 구성암은 내핵, 외학, 각, 그리고 기질부로 구성된다. 핵의 장경은 보통 5cm 내지 8cm이며 구형 또는 타원형의 행태로 암구으 중심부를 이루고 있다. 핵의 화학성분은 $Al_2O_3$, total $Fe_2O_3$, MgO, $K_2O$ LREE가 풍부하고 반대로 $Na_2O$, CaO, HREE가 결정된 것이 특징이며, 핵을 주로 구성하는 변성광물은 근청석-규선석-흑운모-올리고클레이스이다. 각은 운모류의 우혹질 각과 장석류의 우백질 각으로 구분되며 수mm내지 수cm의 두께를 이루며 단일각 내지 다각구조를 이루고 있다. 이들은 핵에 비하여 $Na_2O$, CaO가 상대적으로 부화되고 있으며 기질부를 이루는 화강편마암의 조성과 유사하다. 기지루는 반상변정질로 되어 있고 장석 반상변정의 크기는 대략 2내지 3 mm의 크기로 구성되어 있으며 부수적으로 운모류와 소량의 전기석과 규선석이 존재한다. 또한 후기에 유입된 많은 유체들에 의한 후퇴변성작용의 영향으로 장석은 견운모화내지 전기석화되고, 근청석은 피나이트화 되었다.

• The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.10-20
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• 1996

The increament of crustal thickness, continental growth and evolution, plate tectonic movements, and mega-impacts of meteorites have been worldwidely studied in the subdivision of Precambrian. In many subdivision methods of Precambrian Eon and Eonthem, the division based on the principle of the Plate tctonic movement referred internationally, is as follows, $L^AT_EX$ The rationality of this subdivision and some problems in the currently adopted stratigraphic subdivision of Precambrian Eonthem will by commented, and the validity of English and Korean Geological terminology on the Precambrian stratigraphy of northeastern Asia will be discussed also.

• The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 1996

Eonyang amethyst deposits are thought to be spatially and temporally associated with the biotite granite of the Kyeongsang Basin. The examined euhedral quartz crystals in cavities in the aplite intruded biotite granite are colored-zoned from white at the base to amethystine at the tops. Three types of primary Inclusions were observed and three is representing each types are constructed to constrain the trapping conditions and fluid evolution involved during the formation of the amethyst. The intersection of the isochore representing the early fluid inclusions with solidus temperature of the host granite indicates initial quartz formation at about $600^{\circ}C$ and 1.0-1.5 kbars . Intermediate quartz formation, associated with the high-salinity inclusions, occurred at somewhat lower temperatures ($400^{circ}c$) and pressures of about 1 kbar. The amethystine quartz formed from $H_2O$-$CO_2$-NaCl fluids at temperatures between 280-$400^{circ}c$ and pressures of about 1 kbar. Early quartz is interpreted to have formed from fluids that either exsolved from or were in equilibrium with the granite at near solidus conditions, whereas the amethystine quartz apparently grew from fluids of at least partial sedimentary origin.

• The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.9-18
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• 1993

The high-P metamorphic belt in central China, between the Sino-Korean and the Yangtze continental plates, is composed of the low-T and high-P metamorphic belt on the south and the high-T and high-P metamorphic belt on the north. The low-T and high-P metamorphic belt consists predominantly of bimodal metamorphic volcano-sedimentary sequences of Middle to Upper Proterozoic, characterized by the occurrences of blueschists, which have undergone a progressive metamorphism from blueschist through greenschist to epidote amphibolite facies with metamorphic conditions of 7~14 kb and 350~$560^{\circ}C$. The high-T and high-P and high-P metamorphic belt mainly consists of the Upper Archean to Lower Proterozoic crystalline basement characterized by the aboundant occurrences of eclogites formed at 12~28 kb and 620~$840^{\circ}C$. The formation of high-P metamorphic belt is related to the collision between the Sino-Korean and the Yangtze continental plates during Indosinian orogeny. The two belts may extend to central Korean Peninsula correlating respectively to the Okchon belt and the Kyonggi massif based on comparative studies of geography, tectonics and petrology. Therefore, much attention should be paid to search for such high-P metamorphic rocks as blueschists or eclogites in those two areas, which can play a key role for understanding the tectonic evolution of the Korean Peninsula.