• Title/Summary/Keyword: Earth-science

Search Result 6,553, Processing Time 0.037 seconds

The Use of Virtual Reality in Web-based Earth Science Education (웹기반 지구과학교육에서 가상현실 기술의 활용)

  • Kim, Hee-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
    • /
    • v.23 no.7
    • /
    • pp.531-542
    • /
    • 2002
  • The experimental side of earth science contains a lot of variables that cannot be controlled in the classroom or in the laboratory. Therefore, as one method to overcome these difficulties, a learning program using 3D Virtual Reality technique has been developed. The program was used with 701 middle school students. The result showed that the program had a very positive effect on inducing interest and motivation through a sense of immersion, and it also showed to be a big help in the improvement of space perception ability.

Early Ordovician (Tremadocian) Graptolites from the Mungok Formation, Yeongwol, Korea: Biostratigraphy and Correlation

  • Kim, Jeong-Yul;Cho, Hyun-Su;Jin, Yeong-Pil
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
    • /
    • v.27 no.7
    • /
    • pp.745-756
    • /
    • 2006
  • Early Ordovician graptolites from the Mungok Formation of Yeongwol area, Korea comprise seven species belonging to six genera: Callograptus curvithecalis, Callograptus sinicus, Aspidograptus lotolatzensis, Dendrograptus suni, Dictyonema uniforme, Adelograptus cf. tenellus, and Psigraptus jacksoni. Two graptolite zones with three subzones are recognized in the eight sections of the Mungok Formation. The Adelograptus Zone is correlated with (1) La 1b of the Lancefield Formation of Victoria, Australia, (2) the Adelograptus-Clonograptus Zone of the Yehli Formation of Jilin, China, and (3) the Adelograptus Zone of the Road River Formation of Yukon, Canada. It suggests that the upper part of the Mungok Formation corresponds to early Late Tremadocian of Early Ordovician.

Discovery of 500-day period component in the Earth's polar motion

  • Na, Seong-Ho;Jo, Jeong-Ho;Baek, Jeong-Ho;Gwak, Yeong-Hui;Park, Pil-Ho
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
    • /
    • v.35 no.2
    • /
    • pp.53.1-53.1
    • /
    • 2010
  • Earth's polar motion has been known for more than one century, and it has been monitored by astrometric observation and recently by space geodetic technique. The Chandler and the annual wobbles are two dominant parts of Earth's polar motion. But according to our recent analysis on a relevant and accurate dataset, another polar motion component, of which period is about 500 days, exists with an amplitude of 20 milliarcseconds in average. This third largest component of polar motion should be caused by resonance of unidentified oscillating mode of Earth, possibly Earth's inner core wobble.

  • PDF

Petrogenetic Significance of the New Petrogenetic Grid (2000) Compared with Synthetic System and Theoretically Computed Grid

  • Ahn, Kun-Sang;Nakamura, Yasuo;Shin, In-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
    • /
    • v.23 no.1
    • /
    • pp.105-111
    • /
    • 2002
  • The observation of the new biotite isograd (chlorite + chloritoid = andalusite + biotite) in the Mungyong coal field requires the modification of Harte and Hudson's (1979) metapelite grid which eliminates the stability field of staurolite + cordierite assemblages. The newly proposed metapelite grid by Ahn and Nakamura (2000) can define more properly the isograd reaction observed from nature. We discuss first topological interrelations between synthetic system (FASHO-, KFASHO-, KFMASH system) on an isobaric section at 2kbar, where phase relations are well constrained. The following discussion is concentrated on the topological relations between stable reactions. At the last, we discuss the petrogenetic significance of the Ahn's petrogenetic grid compared with theoretically computed grids. Ahn's petrogenetic grid is consistent with synthetic and natural system, and is one of the excellent example of KFMASH approximation in metapelite.