• 천문학논총
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.665-669
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• 2015

The Kepler mission has shown that small planets are extremely common. It is likely that nearly every star in the sky hosts at least one rocky planet. We just need to look hard enough-but this requires vast amounts of telescope time. MINERVA (MINiature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array) is a dedicated exoplanet observatory with the primary goal of discovering rocky, Earth-like planets orbiting in the habitable zone of bright, nearby stars. The MINERVA team is a collaboration among UNSW Australia, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Penn State University, University of Montana, and the California Institute of Technology. The four-telescope MINERVA array will be sited at the F.L. Whipple Observatory on Mt Hopkins in Arizona, USA. Full science operations will begin in mid-2015 with all four telescopes and a stabilised spectrograph capable of high-precision Doppler velocity measurements. We will observe ~100 of the nearest, brightest, Sun-like stars every night for at least five years. Detailed simulations of the target list and survey strategy lead us to expect $15{\pm}4$ new low-mass planets.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제56권6호
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• pp.817-830
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• 2023

This study investigates the age of the surficial rocks in the Arunta region using Uranium-Lead (U-Pb) geochronological dating. Rock samples were collected at four locations, Cattle-Water Pass (CP 1610), Gough Dam (GD 1622 and GD 1610), and London-Eye (LE 1601), within the Strangways Metamorphic Complex and crushed by selFragging. Subsequently, the zircon grains were imaged using Cathodoluminescence (CL) analysis and the U-Pb (uranium and lead) isotope ratios and the chrono-stratigraphy were measured. The imaged zircon revealed an anomalous heterogeneous crystal structure. Ellipses of the samples at locations GD1601, CP1610, and GD1622 fall below the intercept indicating the ages produced discordant patterns, whereas LE1601 intersects the Concordia curve at two points, implying the occurrence of an event of significant impact. For the rock sample at CP1610, the estimated mean age is 1742.2 ± 9.2 Ma with mean squared weighted deviation (MSWD) = 0.49 and probability of equivalence of 0.90; 1748 ± 15 Ma - MSWD = 1.02 and probability of equivalence of 0.40 for GD1622; and 1784.4 ± 9.1 Ma with MSWD of 1.09 and probability of equivalence of 0.37 for LE1601. But for samples at GD1601, two different age groups with different means occurred: 1) below the global mean (1792.2 ± 32 Ma) estimated at 1738.2 ± 14 Ma with MSWD of 0.109 and probability of equivalence of 0.95 and 2) above it with mean of 1838.22 ± 14 Ma, MSWD of 1.6 and probability of equivalence of 0.95. Analysis of the zircon grains has shown a discrepancy in the age range between 1700 Ma and 1800 Ma compared to the ASO dated to have occurred between 440 and 300 Ma. Moreover, apparent similarity in age of the core and rim means that the mineral crystallized relatively quickly without significant interruptions and effect on the isotopic system. This may have constraint the timing and extent of geological events that might have affected the mineral, such as metamorphism or hydrothermal alteration.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2011년도 학술발표회
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• pp.8-9
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• 2011

On 4 September 2010 an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 on the Richter scale occurred on the Canterbury Plains in the South Island of New Zealand. The Canterbury Plains are an area of extensive groundwater and spring fed surface water systems. Since the September earthquake there have been several thousand aftershocks (Fig. 1), the largest being a 6.3 magnitude quake which occurred close to the centre of Christchurch on 22February 2011. This second quake caused extensive damage to the city of Christchurch including the deaths of 189 people. Both of these quakes had marked hydrological impacts. Water is a vital natural resource for Canterburywith groundwater being extracted for potable supply and both ground and surface water being used extensively for agricultural and horticultural irrigation.The groundwater is of very high quality so that the city of Christchurch (population approx. 400,000) supplies untreated artesian water to the majority of households and businesses. Both earthquakes caused immediate hydrological effects, the most dramatic of which was the liquefaction of sediments and the release of shallow groundwater containing a fine grey silt-sand material. The liquefaction that occurred fitted within the empirical relationship between distance from epicentre and magnitude of quake described by Montgomery et al. (2003). . It appears that liquefaction resulted in development of discontinuities in confining layers. In some cases these appear to have been maintained by artesian pressure and continuing flow, and the springs are continuing to flow even now. In spring-fed streams there was an increase in flow that lasted for several days and in some cases flows remained high for several months afterwards although this could be linked to a very wet winter prior to the September earthquake. Analysis of the slope of baseflow recession for a spring-fed stream before and after the September earthquake shows no change, indicating no substantial change in the aquifer structure that feeds this stream.A complicating factor for consideration of river flows was that in some places the liquefaction of shallow sediments led to lateral spreading of river banks. The lateral spread lessened the channel cross section so water levels rose although the flow might not have risen accordingly. Groundwater level peaks moved both up and down, depending on the location of wells. Groundwater level changes for the two earthquakes were strongly related to the proximity to the epicentre. The February 2011 earthquake resulted in significantly larger groundwater level changes in eastern Christchurch than occurred in September 2010. In a well of similar distance from both epicentres the two events resulted in a similar sized increase in water level but the slightly slower rate of increase and the markedly slower recession recorded in the February event suggests that the well may have been partially blocked by sediment flowing into the well at depth. The effects of the February earthquake were more localised and in the area to the west of Christchurch it was the earlier earthquake that had greater impact. Many of the recorded responses have been compromised, or complicated, by damage or clogging and further inspections will need to be carried out to allow a more definitive interpretation. Nevertheless, it is reasonable to provisionally conclude that there is no clear evidence of significant change in aquifer pressures or properties. The different response of groundwater to earthquakes across the Canterbury Plains is the subject of a new research project about to start that uses the information to improve groundwater characterisation for the region. Montgomery D.R., Greenberg H.M., Smith D.T. (2003) Stream flow response to the Nisqually earthquake. Earth & Planetary Science Letters 209 19-28.

• 암석학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.129-150
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 옥천, 청산, 문경 부운령, 부산 지역에서 작성된 암상구분에 의한 상세한 지질도, 변형단계별 지질구조와 미구조, 변형작용과 변성작용 사이의 상대적 시간관계 등에 대한 종합적인 연구결과와 옥천누층군에서 최근까지 보고된 절대 및 화석 연대자료로부터 중부 옥천대의 지구조 발달과정을 새롭게 고찰해 보았다. 첫 번째 지구조운동($D^*$)은 원경기육괴를 북부 경기육괴(현재의 경기육괴)와 남부 경기육괴(부산 및 박달령 편마암복합체)로 분리시키는 열곡작용에 의해 특징 지워진다. 전기 고생대 동안에는 조선누층군과 이에 상응하는 옥천누층군의 하위층군(석영사질암, 이질암, 탄산염질암, 염기성질암)이 옥천열곡분지에 퇴적 및 분출 관입되었고, 후기 고생대 동안에는 평안누층군과 이에 상응하는 옥천누층군의 상위층군(역질암, 이질암, 산성질암)이 퇴적 및 분출 관입되었다. 두 번째 지구조운동(옥천-청산 지구조운동/송림조산운동: D1)은 후기 페름기~중기 트라이아스기 동안에 발생하였고, D1은 전기단계의 옥천 아지구조운동(D1a)과 후기단계의 청산 아지구조운동(D1b)으로 구분된다. D1a는 북부 경기육괴와 남부 경기육괴의 결합 즉 옥천열곡분지의 닫힘운동과 관련하여 발생하였으며, 그 초기단계에는 옥천누층군에 조립흑운모, 석류석, 십자석 등 중압형 변성광물의 성장과 관련된 M1 중압형 변성작용을 발생시켰고 그 후기단계에는 옥천 중압형 변성암류를 남동-버젼스의 몇몇 나쁘로서 발굴시켰다. 그 결과 옥천변성대에서는 남동-버젼스의 지구조단위들이 형성되고 옥천누층군에는 이에 수반되어 대규모 칼집습곡, 광역엽리, 신장선구조가 형성되었다. D1b는 (북)북동-(남)남서의 압축지구조 환경하에서 발생하여 남중국판(경기육괴와 옥천변성대)과 북중국판(영남육괴와 태백산대)을 결합시켰다. 주요 지질구조로는 결합부의 선단부와 후미부에 (북)북동-버젼스 내지 (남)남서-버젼스를 갖는 (서)북서 방향의 충상단층이 형성되고, 결합부의 측면부에는 북북동 방향의 우수 주향-이동성 청산전단대와 조선 및 평안누층군에 북북동 방향의 직립습곡이 형성되었으며, 한반도에는 대동분지가 형성되었다. 그 이후, 후기 트라이아스기~전기 쥬라기의 대동층군이 퇴적되고, 세 번째 지구조운동(호남 지구조운동/대보조산운동: D2)은 전기~후기 쥬라기 동안에 북북동 방향의 우수 주향-이동성 호남전단운동의 횡압축응력 지구조환경하에서 발생하여 옥천누층군에 비대칭 파랑습곡과 조선 및 평안누층군에 북북동 방향의 횡와습곡과 후기 트라이아기 이전의 지층군이 대동층군의 상부로 충상하는 동남동-버젼스의 충상단층을 형성시켰다. M2 홍주석-규선석형 접촉변성작용은 D2의 휴식기에 해당하는 중기 쥬라기에 대보 화강암류의 관입에 의해 발생하였다. 네 번째 지구조운동(청마리 지구조운동: D3)은 전기 백악기에 남-북 방향의 압축지구조 환경하에서 발생하여 북북동 방향의 좌수 주향-이동성 전단운동에 수반된 당겨-열림형 백악기 퇴적분지를 형성시켰다. M3 후퇴변성작용은 주로 D2 이후에 발생하여 옥천누층군에 녹니석 반상변정을 결정시켰다. D3 이후 옥천지역에서는 기생 킹크습곡과 함께 대규모 금강 끌림습곡을 수반하는 좌수향 금강단층운동(금강 지구조운동: D4)이 발생하였고 이들 킹크습곡은 후기 백악기의 산성 암맥에 의해 관입된다.