• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.79-86
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• 2002

It was found that 14 coastal habitats in South Korea have comparetively natural vegetation. The habitats were classified into three types - intertidal flats, sand dunes, and estuaries. There were four intertidal flats, five sand dunes and five estuaries. Except for Cynodon dactylon and Tetragonia tetragonoides, all of the main halophytes and sand dune plants were found in the habitats. These two species were mainly distributed on the southern coast. This study identified coastal vegetation, such as pure stands of Suaeda japonica on intertidal flats, mixed halophyte communities around the high-water mark, pure stands of Vitex rotundifolia on stable sand dunes, mixed communities dominated by Carex kobomugi on unstable sand dunes, and pure stands of Phragmites communis in estuaries. The types of coastal vegetation may depend on sediment types, the inundation time of seawater and the stability of sediments.

• 한국제4기학회지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.93-101
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• 1993

한국 서해안의 특징적인 조간대 퇴적층의 종류로서 사립질 퇴적층(sandy deposit) 즉, 조간대 해빈층과 해안사구의 사질퇴적물의 분포를 구분할 수 있는데, 이번 연구는 충남 서산군 천리포의 사립질 퇴적층에 관한 표면 퇴적구조(bedform)로서의 메가 연흔(megaripple) 이동양식과 조직 매개변수(textural parameter)의 연구이다. 이 곳 천리포의 조간대 해빈층과 연속하여 발달한 해안 사구층의 조직 매개변수를 규명하므로서 조간대 환경과 해안 사구 환경을 각각의 환경적 단종(endmember)으로 구분될 수 있다는 결론이다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.225-231
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• 2009

The characteristics of morphological shapes, wave heights, tidal ranges and sediment sizes are observed and compared between intertidal beach and mudflat. The Mohang sand beach, southwest coast of Korea, is located just next to the large mudflat and has tidal range over 5 meters. Wave measurements are conducted at each entrance of the beach and mudflat as well as at the outside waters representing the incident waves to these different coastal environments. The morphological characteristics are also examined including the sediment size and the slope of the bathymetry, For the observation of morphological shapes, camera monitoring technique is used to measure the spatial information of intertidal bathymetry. The water lines moving on the intertidal flat/beach durinq a flood indicate depth contours between low and high water lines. The water lines extracted from the consecutive images are rectified to get the ground coordinates of each depth contours and integrated to provide three dimensional information of intertidal topography. The wave data show that sand beach is in the condition of severer wave forcing but tidal range is almost identical in both environment. The slope of the mudflat is much milder than the sand beach with finer sediment.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.245-255
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• 2014

To collect the diatom species belonging to the genus Hantzschia, bottom sediments were collected from 32 sampling sites in 23 sand-flat areas in the intertidal zone and river reaches of Nakdong River estuary, Korea. The sand sediments contained a total of 19 species of genus Hantzschia, Hantzschia amphioxys (Ehrenberg) Grunow, H. amphioxys f. capitata O. Muller, H. baltica Simonsen, H. distinctepunctata (Hustedt) Hustedt, H. elegantula (Østrup) Witkowski et al., H. longiareolata Garcia-Baptista, H. marina (Donkin) Grunow, H. pseudomarina Hustedt, H. virgata (Roper) Grunow, H. virgata var. gracilis Hustedt, H. virgata var. kariana Grunow, H. virgata var. leptocephala Østrup and H. weyprechtii Grunow, including six unconfirmed species. Eleven Hantzschia species are reported as new to Korea. Hantzschia virgata, its infraspecies, and neighboring speceis showed large morphological variations within a single species or among the closely related species. Hantzschia amphioxys, H. distinctepunctata, and H. virgata var. leptocephala prefer freshwater habitats in the upper reaches of the river, while others occurred mainly in the sand flats composed of coarse sand in the intertidal area. In the estuarine sediments, the Hantzschia taxa are classified to be typical sand-attached forms.

• 한국해양학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.9-18
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• 1978

조간대는 창조류와 낙조류의 영향으로 주기적인 침수와 노출이 일어나는 해역으로서 조류에 의해서 퇴적작용이 이루어지는 해양퇴적환경이다. 우리나라 서 남 해안에는 조간대가 잘 발달되어 있으며 서 남해안 조간대의 조사 연구방향에 대하여 박(1976)에 의해 제시된 바 있다. 본 연구의 목적은 서해의 남양만 남부에 발달하여 있는 조간대 퇴적환경에서의 (1)퇴적물분포양상, (2)퇴적작용, (3)퇴적물의 화학성분 및 (4)퇴적물의 점토광물의 종류를 밝히는데 있다.

• 한국해양학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.43-49
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• 1985

서해안 장구만에 발달하는 조간대에서 24개의 표층시료 및 18개의 코아를 채 취하여 퇴적물의 조직 및 퇴적구조를 조사하였다. 이 조간대 지역은 대체로 silt flat, sandy-silt flat, silty-sand flat 으로 구분되며 해안선에서 바다쪽으로 갈수 록 입도가 조립화되는 경향을 보여준다. 코아의 X-ray촬영에 의해 나타나는 퇴적구 조는 bioturbation, current ripple laminae, parallel laminae등이며 지역에 따라 현저 한 차이를 보이고 있다. Bioturbation구조는 1차적으로 형성된 물리적 퇴적구조를 파괴하고 있으며, 만조선 쪽으로 갈수록 그 정도가 증가하고 있다. current ripple laminae 는 bioturbation정도가 비교적 적은 silty-sand, sandy-silt지역에 잘 나타나 며, 몇번의 창조류와 낙조류에 의해 형성된 미세한 사층리를 잘 보여주고 있다. 내 만쪽에 나타나는 parallel laminae는 silt/clay호층의 두께 1mm이하의 층리로이루어 져 있는 반면, 외만쪽에 나타나는 parallel laminae는 sand/silt/호층의 두께 1~5mm 의 층리로 구성되어 있는 것이 특징이다.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.437-443
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• 2003

Bioremediation technologies were applied to experimental microcosms, simulating an oil spill in a lower intertidal area. Three treatments (oil only, oil plus nutrients, and oil plus nutrients and microbial inocula) were applied, and each microcosm was repeatedly filled and eluted with seawater every 12 h to simulate tidal cycles. To minimize washing-out of the inoculum by the tidal cycles, microbial cells were primarily immobilized on diatomaceous earth before they were applied to the oiled sand. Oil degradation was monitored by gravimetric measurements, thin layer chromatography/flame ionization detector (TLC/FID) analysis, and gas chromatography (GC) analysis, and the loss of oil content was normalized to sand mass or nor-hopane. When the data were normalized to sand mass, no consistent differences were detected between nutrient-amended and nutrient/inoculum-amended microcosms, although both differed from the oil-only microcosm in respect of oil removal rate by a factor of 4 to 14. However, the data relative to nor-hopane showed a significant treatment difference between the nutrient-amended and nutrient/inoculum-treated microcosms, especially in the early phase of the treatment. The accelerating effect of inoculum treatment has hardly been reported in studies of oil bioremediation in the Tower intertidal area. The inoculum immobilized on diatomaceous earth seemed to be a very effective formulation for retaining microbial cells in association with the sand. Results of this study also suggest that interpretation of the effectiveness of bioremediation could be dependent on the selection of monitoring methods, and consequently the application of various analytical methods in combination could be a solution to overcome the limitations of oil bioremediation monitoring.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제46권5호
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• pp.638-648
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• 2013

To understand the geochemical characteristics of intertidal sediment in a semi-enclosed bay, we measured various geochemical parameters, including grain size, ignition loss (IL), chemical oxygen demand (COD), acid volatile sulfide (AVS), and trace metals (Al, Fe, Cu, Pb, Zn, Cd, Hg, and As), in intertidal sediment from three bays (Deukryang Bay, Yeoja Bay, and Gamak Bay) in the southern region of Jeollanam Province. The intertidal sediment in Deukryang Bay consisted of various sedimentary types, such as sand, gravelly muddy sand, mud, and silt, whereas the intertidal sediments in Yeoja and Gamak Bays were composed mainly of mud. The concentrations of IL, COD, AVS and trace metals in the intertidal sediments of the three study regions were relatively high near areas affected by input of stream waters and/or shellfish farming waste. The concentrations of organic matter and trace metals in Gamak Bay were much higher than those in Deukryang and Yeoja Bays, which appears to be due to the influence of anthropogenic pollutants, originating from the city and the industrial complex near Gamak Bay. The evaluation results of organic matter and metal pollution using the sediment quality guidelines showed that the intertidal sediments in the three study regions were not polluted in terms of organic matter and trace metals. In future, sustainable management for sources of organic matter and trace metal is necessary to conserve a healthy benthic ecosystem in intertidal sediments.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.704-715
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• 2012

To examine temporal and spatial variation in salinity and nutrients in the shallow pore water of intertidal sandflats, we measured salinity and nutrient concentrations (dissolved inorganic nitrogen [DIN], phosphorus [DIP], and silicate [DSi]) in pore water of the intertidal zone along the coastline of Jeju Island at two and/or three month intervals from May 2009 to December 2010. Geochemical parameters (grain size, ignition loss [IL], chemical oxygen demand [COD], and acid volatile sulfur [AVS]) in sediment were also investigated. The surface sediments in intertidal sandflats of Jeju Island were mainly composed of sand, slightly gravelly sand and gravelly sand, with a range of mean grain size from 0.5 to 2.5 ${\O}$. Concentrations of IL and COD in sediment were higher along the eastern coast, as compared to the western coast, due to differences in biogenic sediment composition. Salinity and nutrient concentrations in pore water were markedly different across time and space during rainy seasons, whereas concentrations were temporally and spatially more stable during dry seasons. These results suggest that salinity and nutrient concentrations in pore water depend on the advective flow of fresh groundwater. We also observed an imbalance of the DIN/DIP ratio in pore water due to the influence of contaminated sources of DIN. In particular, nutrient concentrations during rainy and dry seasons were characterized by high DIN/DIP ratios (mean-127) and low DIN/DIP ratios (mean-10), respectively, relative to the Redfield ratio (16) in offshore seawater. Such an imbalance of DIN/DIP ratios in pore water can affect the coastal ecosystem and appears to cause outbreaks of benthic seaweed along the coastline of Jeju Island.

• 한국석유지질학회지
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• 제10권1_2호
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• pp.10-17
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• 2004

한국 서남해안에 위치한 두우리 조간대는 사주와 보호섬이 존재하지 않고 외해로 열려있는 전형적인 개방형 조간대이다. 이러한 개방형 조간대에서는 바람에 의한 파랑이 퇴적작용에 중요한 요소의 하나이므로, 계절에 따른 파랑에너지의 차이가 조간대 표층퇴적물의 분포와 퇴적구조의 특성에 직접적으로 반영된다. 두우리 조간대는 상부의 조수해빈 (tidal beach), 중부의 전형적인 조간대 (intertidal flat)와 최하부의 니질대 (lowermost mudflat)로 구분된다. 이러한 구분은 표층퇴적물의 구성뿐만 아니라 조간대의 경사도에 의한 구분과도 일치한다. 조간대 내에서의 퇴적물은 1차 퇴적구조와 사서질 퇴적물의 함량에 따라 다시 사질 조간대, 혼합 조간대와 니질조간대로 나누어진다. 두우리 조간대의 표층퇴적상은 계절에 따라서 퇴적물의 함량과 퇴적구조에 변화를 보이며, 퇴적상의 변화양상은 계절풍의 방향과 세기, 폭풍과 밀접한 관련이 있다. 북서계절풍이 강한 겨울철과 봄철에는 사질 조간대의 퇴적상이 우세하며, 약한 남동풍이 우세한 여름철에는 니질 조간대의 퇴적상이 우세하게 분포한다. 가을철에는 혼합 조간대가 우세하게 나타난다. 표층퇴적물은 여름에는 전 조간대가 약 20 cm 두께의 니질 퇴적물로 뒤덮이고 가을이 지나 겨울로 가면서 니질 퇴적상에서 사질 퇴적상으로 바뀐다. 이러한 표층퇴적상의 변화는 바람도 세어지고 풍향도 바뀌어 조간대를 공격하는 파랑의 에너지가 강해지면서 여름철에 퇴적되었던 니질 퇴적물을 침식시키기 때문이다. 캔코아 주상시료에서 퇴적구조는 여름철에는 조간대 상부 ($0{\~}l.3 {\cal}km$)에서는 니질 퇴적물의 평행엽층리와 상승연흔 사엽층리가 하부 $(1.7{\~}2.3 {\cal}km)$에서는 괴상의 니질 퇴적층이, 겨울철에는 전체적으로 평행엽층리와 연흔사층리가 우세하게 나타나며, 부분적으로 둔덕사층리 (HCS)가 나타난다.