• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.8-17
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• 2010

Geology and stromatolite fossil localities of Socheong Island are reviewed on the basis of previous studies and recent field survey. A new fossil locality of stromatolites which are very well preserved is recognized in Bunam area, northeast of Socheong Island. An outcrop composed of sandstone and shale alternations which exhibit well-developed laminations and folds is also found in the east of the Socheong harbor, and it is regarded as one of the symbolic features of the geology in Socheong Island. Stromatolite fossil localities of Socheong Island contains diverse and well-preserved Late Proterozoic stromatolites which are correlated with those from the Mukchon and Myoraksan series of the Sangwon System and diverse sedimentary structures such as ripple marks, desiccation cracks, and raindrop imprints. Stromatolites of Socheong Island, the oldest fossil Natural Monument of Korea, should be preserved at the national level, and continued intensive research must be conducted.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.40 no.3 s.184
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• pp.307-318
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• 2007

The occurrence of geothermal water has high correlates highly with fossil geothermal system. A fuzzy logic based data integration is applied for geothermal potential mapping in the Southern Gyeongsang Basin which is distributed in the regional fossil geothermal system. Several data sets are related with the origin and distribution of fossil geothermal system, such as the geological map, the density of lineaments, the aerial survey map of magnetic intensity, the map of hydrothermal alteration, the distribution density of hydrothermal mines, which were collected as thematic maps for the integration. Fuzzy membership functions for all thematic maps were compared to the locations of the spa hot springs, which were used as ground-truth control points. After integrating all thematic maps, the results of gamma operator (${\gamma}=0.1$) was showed the highest success rate, and new geothermal potential zone is prospected in some area.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.573-583
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• 2010

A paleobotanical study of the fossil woods has been carried out from the Tertiary Janggi Group, Pohang Basin. Three species belonging to three genera of Ulmus sp., Prunus sp., and Acer sp. were identified from the Lower Coalbearing Formation, and two species of two genera of Taxodioxylon sp. and Fagus hondoensis (Watari) from the Upper Coal-bearing Formation. As our specimens are mostly poorly preserved, it is difficult to give clear specific names, but mostly are all characteristic constitutional elements of the Miocene fossil woods in Korea. The values of mean sensitivity measured from the fossil woods of Lower and Upper Coal-bearing Formations are 0.367 and 0.370 respectively, but they are more than 0.30. Based on the present two data mentioned above, it stands to reason that there were many changes in the water supply to the roots of the woods or having influence to some degree each year because of the seasonal changes in rainfall.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.579-584
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• 2006

A fossil feather found from the Late Pleistocene sediments of Jeju Island, Korea is described. The sediments deposited in a shallow marine environment yielded numerous footprints of diverse birds and mammals including hominids. A fossil feather well-preserved as a thin white film on the light gray mudstone is part of a vaned flight one. Although the specimen is relatively small in size (10.3 mm long and 9.0 mm wide), a rachis with two flat vanes and nearly parallel curved barbs with numerous proximal and distal barbules are well preserved. The specimen represents the first record of a fossil feather from Korea and is also the first record of feather from the Pleistocene deposits in the world.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.13-28
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• 2008

About 450 specimens of Lockeia were discovered from the lacustrine siltstone of the Early Cretaceous Jinju Formation of Jin Island, southern coast of Korea. They are very elongated, seed-shaped Lockeia characterized by a large size, mostly 60-70 mm long and 15-20 mm wide. They are characteristically sharp longitudinal furrow bounded by steeply inclined both margins, elevated marginal rims and sharp pointed both longitudinal furrow ends. This trace fossil is herein described as Lockeia gigantus ichnosp. nov. Plicatounio, a freshwater bivalve which does not occur occurs occasionally within Lockeia gigantus is regarded as the most-likely producer of this resting trace fossil. This new trace fossil represents the largest Lockeia ever known and the first record of Lockeia from the Cretaceous non-marine deposits in the world. This fossil also represents an unusual example of resting trace fossil (Lockeia) associated with a possible producer (bivalve Plicatounio) lived in community in the shallow lacustrine environment.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.492-502
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• 2011

20 fossil sites of numerous fossil sites in Korea have been designated as Natural Monument for protection and conservation. Many of the sites which is located at the coastal area have been gradually disfigured by natural weathering, erosion and human activity. Thus the conservation of the original form and the documentation for the original figure are necessary. In this study, we applied 3D digital documentation to Natural Monument No. 394, Haenam Uhangri dinosaur, pterosaur, and bird footprint fossil site, for maintaining the original form of the dinosaur footprints. We were able to obtain the 3D digital data on two dinosaur footprint sites, a high resolution distributional map, and more accurate digital data of the dinosaur footprints applied the rendering method by ambient occlusion. 3D digital data on the dinosaur footprints is worth for the conservation and research data, moreover content for applying to the various fields such as to make 3D brochure, interactive contents, and so on.

• 한국지구과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.107-107
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• 2010

Geology and stromatolite fossil localities of Socheong Island are reviewed on the basis of previous studies and recent field survey. A new fossil locality of stromatolites which are very well preserved is recognized in Bunam area, northeast of Socheong Island. An outcrop composed of sandstone and shale alternations which exhibit well-developed laminations and folds is also found in the east of the Socheong harbor, and it is regarded as one of the symbolic features of the geology in Socheong Island. Stromatolite fossil localities of Socheong Island contains diverse and well-preserved Late Proterozoic stromatolites which are correlated with those from the Mukchon and Myoraksan series of the Sangwon System and diverse sedimentary structures such as ripple marks, desiccation cracks, and raindrop imprints. Stromatolites of Socheong Island, the oldest fossil Natural Monument of Korea, should be preserved at the national level, and continued intensive research must be conducted.

• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• v.27 no.12
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• pp.1169-1178
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• 2018

Two man-made carbon emissions, fossil fuel emissions and land use emissions, have been perturbing naturally occurring global carbon cycle. These emitted carbons will eventually be deposited into the atmosphere, the terrestrial biosphere, the soil, and the ocean. In this study, Simple Global Carbon Model (SGCM) was used to simulate global carbon cycle and to estimate global carbon budget. For the model input, fossil fuel emissions and land use emissions were taken from the literature. Unlike fossil fuel use, land use emissions were highly uncertain. Therefore land use emission inputs were adjusted within an uncertainty range suggested in the literature. Simulated atmospheric $CO_2$ concentrations were well fitted to observations with a standard error of 0.06 ppm. Moreover, simulated carbon budgets in the ocean and terrestrial biosphere were shown to be reasonable compared to the literature values, which have considerable uncertainties. Simulation results show that with increasing fossil fuel emissions, the ratios of carbon partitioning to the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere have increased from 42% and 24% in the year 1958 to 50% and 30% in the year 2016 respectively, while that to the ocean has decreased from 34% in the year 1958 to 20% in the year 2016. This finding indicates that if the current emission trend continues, the atmospheric carbon partitioning ratio might be continuously increasing and thereby the atmospheric $CO_2$ concentrations might be increasing much faster. Among the total emissions of 399 gigatons of carbon (GtC) from fossil fuel use and land use during the simulation period (between 1960 and 2016), 189 GtC were reallocated to the atmosphere (47%), 107 GtC to the terrestrial biosphere (27%), and 103GtC to the ocean (26%). The net terrestrial biospheric carbon accumulation (terrestrial biospheric allocations minus land use emissions) showed positive 46 GtC. In other words, the terrestrial biosphere has been accumulating carbon, although land use emission has been depleting carbon in the terrestrial biosphere.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.480-483
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• 1997

A fossil power plant can be modeled by a lot of algebraic equations and differential equations. When we simulate a large, complicated fossil power plant by a computer such as workstation or PC, it takes much time until overall equations are completely calculated. Therefore, new processing systems which have high computing speed is ultimately needed to develope real-time simulators. Vital points of real-time simulators are accuracy, computing speed, and deadline observing. In this paper, we present a enhanced strategy in which we can provide powerful computing power by parallel processing of DSP processors with communication links. We designed general purpose DSP modules, and a VME interface module. Because the DSP module is designed for general purpose, we can easily expand the parallel system by just connecting new DSP modules to the system. Additionally we propose methods about downloading programs, initial data to each DSP module via VME bus, DPRAM and processing sequences about computing and updating values between DSP modules and CPU30 board when the simulator is working.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.114-120
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• 2000

Fossil power plant availability is significantly affected by gradual degradations of equipment as operation of the plant continues. It is quite important to determine whether or not to replace some equipment and when to replace the equipment. Performance calculation and analysis can provide the information. Robustness in the performance calculation can be increased by using verification ＆ validation of measured input data. We suggest new algorithm in which estimation relation for validated measurement can be obtained using correlation between measurements. Input estimation model is obtained using design data and acceptance measurement data of domestic 16 fossil power plant. The model consists of finding mostly correlated state variable in plant state and mapping relation based on the model and current state of power plant.