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Distribution of Some Metallic Elements in Surface Sediments of the Southeastern Yellow Sea. (황해 남동해역 표층퇴적물 중 수종 금속원소의 분포 특성에 관한 연구)

  • 이창복;정회수
    • 한국해양학회지
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.55-65
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    • 1992
  • Ninety-seven surface sediment samples, collected from the southeastern part of the Yellow Sea, were analyzed for their contents of five metallic elements, including Fe, Mn, Ni, Cu and Pb as well as their grain-size and calcium carbonate content. The result showed a contrasting behaviour among the five metallic elements. with respect to their relationship with the sediment grain0size. contents of nickel and copper demonstrated a fairly linear relationship with the pediment grain-size whereas those of manganese and lead did not. This different behaviour in these metals was interpreted as being the result of the anthropogenic inputs (for Pb) and modification during the early diagenesis (for Mn). The R0mode factor analysis result also confirmed the different behaviour of manganese and lead from that of copper and nickel. Based on this different behaviour in metals the (Mn+Pb)/(Cu+Ni) ratio was suggested as a possible criterion for distinguishing the fine sediments in the study area, which originated from two different source area. China and Korea.

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Geological Structure and Depositional Environments in the Dok Island, East Sea (독도 주변해역의 지구조와 퇴적환경)

  • Huh Sik;Park Cha-Hong;Yoo Hai-Soo;Han Sang-Joon
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.05a
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    • pp.145-150
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    • 2005
  • A maximum of 3 km thickness of sediments were deposited above basement deformed by volcanic activities around the Dok Island. As the geological structure, the tension caused the basement-involved normal faults in the early stage of basin formation, whereas the sediment layers showed normal faults, volcanic domes and sills caused by volcanic activities. From the distribution of volcanics in order of age at the Ulleung Basin, volcanic activities were increased toward the northeastern direction (toward Dok Island). The study area is characterized by extensional crustal deformation before sediment deposition during the Early or Middle Miocene age, After the Late Miocene age, the basin was deformed by deep buried volcanics or subsidence of basin, in consequence, became complex geological structures.

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Diurnal Fluctuations of Saprophytic Bacterial distribution and Their Extracellular Enzyme Activities in the Overlying Waters of Sediment of the Yellow Sea near Daesan, Korea (대산인근 해역에서 간만조에 따른 종속영양세균의 일일 분포와 세포외 효소 활성력의 변화)

  • Lee, Geon-Hyoung;Gang-Guk Choi;Chun-Bong Baek
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.409-418
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    • 1995
  • As a part of studying the function and structure of the mudflat environment of the Yellow Sea, seawater samples in the overlying waters of sediment near Daesan were collected every hour on March 29 (spring tides) and on April 5 (neap tides), 1995 to study the diurnal distribution of aerobic saprophytic bacteria and their extracellular enzyme activities. The diurnal distribution of aerobic saprophytic bacteria ranged from 1.0 X $10^{2}$ to 7.07 X $10^{3}$ cfu /ml at spring tides and from 1.0 X $10^{2}$ to 8.3 X $10^{3}$ cfu /ml at neap tides. The diurnal variations of aerobic saprophytes at the suface waters were greater than those of middle and bottom waters. However, th diurnal fluctuation of saprophyte numbers at spring tides showed no significant difference compared with that at neap tides. The numbers of three physiological groups of aerobic hacteria (proteolytic, lipolytic and amylolytic bacteria) at the surface waters during spring and neap tides were lower than those at the middles and bottom waters. The diurnal variations of five extracellular enzyme activities at the surface waters during the survey period showed lower values than those at the middle and botton waters. Among the measured extracellular enzyme activities, phosphatase showed the highest. However, the activities of amylase, chitinase and cellulase showed a similar tendency.

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Polymer coating for controlled release of biostimulants from Biostimulant balls (생물활성촉진제의 용출율 제어를 위한 폴리머 코팅)

  • Song, Young-Chae;Woo, Jung-Hui;Senthilkumar, Palaninaicker
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2013.10a
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    • pp.46-47
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    • 2013
  • We prepared biostimulant balls using sea sediment mixed with biostimulants viz acetate, nitrate and sulfate. The Biostimulant balls were coated with Cellulose Acetate (CA) and Polysulfone (PS) to control the release of the biostimulants. SEM images showed that CA coating was porous and irregular in the inside and very uniform and tight like beehive while PS coating was the same in the inside and outside and not porous. Biostimulants release was found to be high in sea water compared to distilled water. The release of nitrate was higher compared to sulfate. In turbulent environment the release of bionutrients was 50% higher than static environment.

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Effect of Sample-loading on Fractionation Efficiency (FE) in a Large Scale Splitter-less Gravitational SPLITT Fractionation (GSF)

  • Lee, Seung-Ho;Lee, Ji-Yeon;Lee, Tae-Woo;Jung, Euo-Chang;Cho, Sung-Kwang
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.32 no.12
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    • pp.4291-4296
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    • 2011
  • Gravitational SPLITT fractionation (GSF) provides separation of colloidal particles into two subpopulations in a preparative scale. Conventionally, GSF is carried out in a thin rectangular channel having two inlets and two outlets at the top and bottom of the channel, respectively. And the channel is equipped with two flow-splitters, one between the top and bottom inlets and another between the top and bottom outlets. A large scale splitter-less GSF system had been developed, which was designed to operate in the full feed depletion (FFD) mode. In the FFD mode, there is only one inlet through which the sample is fed, thus preventing the sample dilution. In this study, the effect of the sample-loading (in the unit of g/hr) on the fractionation efficiency (FE, number% of particles in a GSF fraction that have the sizes expected by theory) of the new large scale splitter-less FFD-GSF system was investigated. The system was tested in the sample-loading range of 3.0-12.0 g/hr with polyurethane latex beads (PU) and sea-sediment. It was found that there is an optimum range in the sample-loading for a FFD-GSF separation. It was also found that there is a general tendency of FE decreasing as the concentration of the sample suspension increases.

Physics-based Salvage Simulation for Wrecked Ship Considering Environmental Loads (환경 하중을 고려한 침몰 선체의 물리 기반 인양 시뮬레이션)

  • Ham, Seung-Ho;Roh, Myung-Il;Kim, Ju-Sung;Lee, Hye-Won;Ha, Sol
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.52 no.5
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    • pp.387-394
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    • 2015
  • Before salvaging a wrecked ship, the physics-based simulation is needed to predict lifting force before real operation by floating crane or barge. Procedures affecting lifting force for the salvage can be divided into three stages. At the first stage, the bottom breakout force for the wrecked ship to escape from seabed sediment should be calculated. At the second step, the current force acting on the wrecked ship while lifting from the seabed to near sea surface should be considered. Finally, buoyancy change near at the sea surface when the wrecked ship start to escape from the water should be considered. In the previous studies, only the breakout force at the first stage was calculated based on simple assumption of embedment depth and contact area of the wrecked ship. Therefore, we develop a program for salvage simulation including whole stages. It is composed of four modules such as the equations of motion, time integration, force calculation, and visualization. As a result, it is applied to simulate lifting the wrecked ship according to various environmental loads including seabed sediments.

Geological Structure and Depositional Environments in the Dok Island, East Sea (독도 주변해역의 지구조와 퇴적환경)

  • Huh, Sik;Park, Chan-Hong;Yoo, Hai-Soo;Han, Sang-Joon
    • Journal of the Korean Geophysical Society
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.131-135
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    • 2005
  • A maximum of 3 km thickness of sediments were deposited above basement deformed by volcanic activities around the Dok Island. As the geological structure, the tension caused the basement-involved normal faults in the early stage of basin formation, whereas the sediment layers showed normal faults, volcanic domes and sills caused by volcanic activities. From the distribution of volcanics in order of age at the Ulleung Basin, volcanic activities were increased toward the northeastern direction(toward Dok Island). The study area is characterized by extensional crustal deformation before sediment deposition during the Early or Middle Miocene age. After the Late Miocene age, the basin was deformed by deep buried volcanics or subsidence of basin, in consequence, became complex geological structures.

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Mineral Composition of the Sediment of Ulleung Basin, Korea (울릉분지 퇴적물의 광물조성)

  • Son, Byeong-Kook;Kim, Hag-Ju;Ahn, Gi-Oh
    • Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.115-127
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    • 2009
  • Mineral quantification was performed on sediments of the Ulleung basin by X-ray powder diffraction and the computer software based on Rietveld quantification method. The sediments are dominated by amorphous opal-A with quartz, feldspars, micas, clays, calcite, and pyrite. The opal-A shows iterative variation in abundance with increasing burial depth. In addition, the relative abundance of opal-A is coincident with abundance of organic carbon contents, indicating that the Ulleung sediment consists mostly of amorphous silica derived from organism in the pelagic environment. Upward increase in the abundance of opal-A is markedly shown in the cores located in the slope region. On the other hand, there is a distinct tendency that the abundance of calcite is inversely proportional to that of opal-A. This indicates that the abundance of opal-A increases during the rise of sea level. Also, the fall of sea level lowers the abundance of opal-A.

Residue of benomyl in the coastal environment on the Cheju island (제주도(濟州道) 연안(沿岸) 해양(海洋) 중(中) benomyl의 잔류(殘留))

  • Kim, Jung-Ho;Suh, Seung-Kyo;Oh, Youn-Keun
    • The Korean Journal of Pesticide Science
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.51-56
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    • 1999
  • For the determination of coastal environmental contamination level of benomyl, benzimidazole pesticide, the residue of benomyl in various environmental samples on the Cheju island was monitored in May, August and October 1996, respectively. The residue of benomyl was determined as carbendazim because benomyl was converted to carbendazim (methyl 2- benzimidazolecarbamate) in the environment. The qualified limit detection of benomyl was $0.2{\mu}g/L$ in ocean water and $0.4{\mu}g/kg$ in the solid such as sediment and sea organism by HPLC with UV detector. Benomyl was not detected in any water and sediment. Moreover benomyl was neither detected in seaweed cava(Ecklonia Cava), agar(Gelidium amansii), turban sell(Batillus cornutus) and sea urchin(Anthocidaris Crassispina). Above date suggest that the benomyl used in the Cheju island is not the major source of coastal contamination.

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U-Series Disequilibrium Dating and its Application to the Recent Sediment Dating from Sangback-do, Southern Sea of Korean Peninsula (우라늄계열(系列) 비평충(非平衝) 연대측정법(年代測定法)과 한반도(韓半島) 남해(南海) 상백도(上白島) 현생(現生) 퇴적층(堆積層)의 연대측정(年代測定)에 관(關)한 연구(硏究))

  • Jae, Won Mok;Lee, Chul;Park, Keung Shik;Choo, Seung Whan
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.239-246
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    • 1985
  • Uranium-thorium separation technique from shallow sediment and ${\alpha}$-source electrodeposition technique are established in the present work, and uranium series disequilibrium dating method is applied to the quaternary piston core from Sangback-do, South Sea of Korean Peninsula. The age of the piston core (depth 200~300cm) sampled from Latitude $34^{\circ}06^{\prime}37^{{\prime}{\prime}}$, Longitude $127^{\circ}37^{\prime}37^{{\prime}{\prime}}$ was determined as ranging from $9.0{\pm}2.2$ to $22.9{\pm}3.3$ Ky B.P, i.e., Later Pleistocene, older than Holocene which was stratigraphically known in the previous study. The sedimentation rate in the area is regularly increased according to the depth of the sedimentation layer. Except a few split sections of the piston core the sedimentation rates are avarage 7.2cm/1,000 years. Where sedimentation layer is deeper, then sedimentation rate tend to be slower. It must be pointed in age calculation that initial $^{230}Th/^{234}U$ radioactivity ratio is much influenced when detrital material was introduced in the sample. The $^{230}Th/^{234}U$ activity ratio measured in the present work is 0.06 at $^{232}Th=0$, and this value shows higher analytical errors because of the low· radioactivity of $^{230}Th$ in the samples.

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