• Title/Summary/Keyword: brittle tectonics

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Geological Application of Lineaments from Satellite Images - A Case Study of Euiseong Sub-basin (위성 영상선구조의 지질학적 응용 - 의성소분지의 경우)

  • 김원균;김상완;원중선;민경덕;김정우
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.25-36
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    • 2000
  • To evaluate the feasibility of using lineaments for the interpretation of regional geological structures, the extracted lineaments from satellite image and surveyed surface geological features mapped in the field were analyzed for the Euiseong Sub-basin. The lineaments extracted from Landsat-5 TM images show primary directions of N20$^{\circ}$~30$^{\circ}$E, N60$^{\circ}$~70$^{\circ}$E, N60$^{\circ}$~70$^{\circ}$W, which represent the trends of faults, strikes, and joints. In the sedimentary formation in the northern part of Palgongsan Uplift Zone, primary directions of the lineaments are NNE and NWW, and NEE in southern parts. The analysis of satellite lineaments is proved to be very useful to study the large-scale structures and surface geology of the Euiseong Sub-basin, whereas the previous research using brittle tectonics approach was advantaged in the outcrop scale in interpretation.

Reactivated Timings of Yangsan Fault in the Sangcheon-ri Area, Korea (상천리 일대 양산단층의 재활동 연대)

  • Song, Yungoo;Park, Changyun;Sim, Ho;Choi, Woohyun;Son, Moon;Khulganakhuu, Chuluunbaatar
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.49 no.2
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    • pp.97-104
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    • 2016
  • Here we firstly present that a timing of reactivated event of Yangsan fault, the major fault in the southeastern Korean Peninsula, by using combined approaches of the optimized illite-polytype quantification, the K-Ar age-dating, and the recently developed illite-age-analysis (IAA) approach for the fault clays from Sangcheon-ri area of Yangsan main fault line. Two chronological record of brittle fault-activation event at about 41.5~43.5 and 50.7 Ma were determined from 3 fault gouges suggesting a crucial reactivation time-scheme. Furthermore, the regional processes that drive tectonics to form and reactivate the Yangsan fault may be explained from the chronological analysis for additional sites along the Yangsan fault.