• The Korean Journal of Quaternary Research
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.77-79
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• 2007

The source regions of Asian Dusts (Yellow Sands) in the western part of China are investigated, and the soil samples are collected samples for approximately 15 days during the spring of 2005. Particle sizes of sediments are analyzed and compared with each other. These grain-size analyses from the source areas can be compared Particle sizes between loess deposits and desert sands in western part of China and desert areas show distinctive differences. Loess deposits are predominantly composed of fine sands and silts. The distinction between the final characteristics of Asian Dust particles arrived in Korea and characteristics during transportation can be recognized comparison with the Asian Dust particles collected where the dust particles settled down. The characteristics of Asian Dust particle sizes can provide the basic information regarding the transportation history from the source region.

• The Korean Journal of Quaternary Research
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.1-3
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• 2007

• The Korean Journal of Quaternary Research
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.63-69
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• 2003

Three tree-ring monsoon rainfall reconstructions from China and Korea have been used in this paper to investigate the variation of the East Asian summer monsoon over the past 160 years. Statistically, there is no linear correlation on a year-by-year basis between Chinese and Korean monsoon rainfall, but region-wide synchronous variation on decadal-scale was observed. Strong monsoon intervals (more rainfall) were 1860-1890, 1910-1925,1940-1960, and weak monsoon periods (dry or even drought) were 1890-1910, 1925-1940, 1960- present. Reconstructions also display that the East Asian summer monsoon suddenly changed from strong into weak around mid-1920, and the East Asian summer monsoon keeps going weak after 1960.

• The Korean Journal of Quaternary Research
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.21-34
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• 1987

In the present study area, a part of intertidal flat in the Seosan Bay, west coast of Korea, characteristic three dominant tidal sedimentary facies and their related several typical sedimentary structures are described, Furthermore, a possible interpretation about the time stratigraphic developments of these intertidal deposits is suggested by introducing very late Quaternary (Holocene) sea-level rise in Korean Seas.

• The Korean Journal of Quaternary Research
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.47-67
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• 1987

Geologically speaking, many lava tunnels and caves are characteristic geomorphic features in Che-Ju Island. Especially, cave-ins are found along cliffs of shoreline and streams. The prehistoric early inhabitants in the island used the tunnels and cave-ins as their major shelters from palaeolithic period to the iron period (AD300-600). These tunnel-dwelling sites and rock-shelters are unsidered to be long-term shelters from the palaeolithic period to the neolithic period. However, these shelters and sites might be changed as temporary camping sites from the bronze to the iron period.

• The Korean Journal of Quaternary Research
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.55-62
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• 2002

Koganghong and Daeyami are two Bronze Age settlement sites in western Kyounggy Province in central Korea. The preliminary petrographic analysis of plain coarse potteries present differences in crystal size and composition of clay and temper which could have been derived from source or technique of preparation. For more concrete results, extensive quantitative analysis should be followed.

• The Korean Journal of Quaternary Research
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.47-54
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• 1989

Pyrite ($FeS_2$) content in brackish and salt marsh sediments is relatively higher than the amount in freshwater marsh sediments. Different values of pyrite sulfur ($FeS_2$-S) content in sediments from the Hiroshima Delta indicate that poorly drained salt marsh had developed between 27.0m and 28.0m below mean sea-level and palaeo-sea-level was constant for several hundreds of years in the same depth during the early Holocene Epoch.

• The Korean Journal of Quaternary Research
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.1-18
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• 1995

The intent of this study is to suppose the time of engraving of Bangudae-rockgraving-picture and the change of the ancient soci-ety related to the Postglacial transgression and regression in the Ulsan Bay. Main results can be summed up as follows; 1. It is supposed that the shoreline in the maximum Postglacial transgression of the Ulsan bay has arrived to Gulhwa-Ri about 14km upstream from the present Taehwa River mouth. 2,.This transgression has occurred about 6,000-5,000 years ago. The prehistoric men around the Bangudae had hunted the whale near the inner bay From this time the people had begun to engrave pictures on the Rock of Bangudae for the ceremony and instruction of the whale hunting,. 3. Since then the shoreline had regressed and the whale hunting area had moved to distant area from the residence and the number of the captured whales had diminished. The whale hunting society had been transformed to the overland animals on the Bangudae-rockgraving- pictures had gradually increased.

• The Korean Journal of Quaternary Research
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.23-27
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• 2008

Paleoenvironmental evolution in South Korea is investigated on the basis of fluctuations in biogenic silica content in sediments from Cheollipo coast on western shore. The biogenic silica measurement was done by alkaline extraction technique. The concentration of the biogenic silica in the Cheollipo coastal sediments is generally low, with an average of 1.2 %. The proxy of biogenic silica records in Cheollipo sediments implies the significant difference of bio-productivity on Korean Peninsula in comparison with those in lacustrine sediments in interior terrestrial continent of the Eurasia.

• The Korean Journal of Quaternary Research
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.18-26
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• 2005

The East Asian summermonsoon is generally accompanied with the quasi-stationary front along the northern and northwestern periphery of the subtropical Northwest Pacific high. The rainy season in Korea has been called as Changma since the middle of 1500s. Understanding of Changma and heavy rainfall advancing along the Changma front is one of main interesting of Korean meteorologists. This study briefly summarized the descriptive characteristics of Changma and its relatedmechanism, definitions on the Changma period, and etymology of Changma through reviewing the previous studies on Changma.