Late Pleistocene sequence architecture on the geostrophic current-dominated southwest margin of the Ulleung Basin, East Sea SCIE SCOPUS

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Title
Late Pleistocene sequence architecture on the geostrophic current-dominated southwest margin of the Ulleung Basin, East Sea
Author(s)
Choi, Dong-Lim; Shin, Dong-Hyeok; Kum, Byung-Cheol; Jang, Seok; Cho, Jin-Hyung; Jou, Hyeong-Tae; Jang, Nam-Do
KIOST Author(s)
Shin, Dong Hyeok(신동혁)Kum, Byung Cheol(금병철)Jang, Seok(장석)Cho, Jin Hyung(조진형)Jang, Nam Do(장남도)
Alternative Author(s)
최동림; 신동혁; 금병철; 장석; 조진형; 주형태; 장남도
Publication Year
2018-06
Abstract
High-resolution multichannel seismic data were collected to identify depositional sequences on the southwestern shelf of the Ulleung Basin, where a unidirectional ocean current is dominant at water depths exceeding 130 m. Four aggradational stratigraphic sequences with a 100,000-year cycle were recognized since marine isotope stage (MIS) 10. These sequences consist only of lowstand systems tracts (LSTs) and falling-stage systems tracts (FSSTs). Prograding wedge-shaped deposits are present in the LSTs near the shelf break. Oblique progradational clinoforms of forced regressive deposits are present in the FSSTs on the outer continental shelf. Each FSST has non-uniform forced regressional stratal geometries, reflecting that the origins of sediments in each depositional sequence changed when sea level was falling. Slump deposits are characteristically developed in the upper layer of the FSSTs, and this was used as evidence to distinguish the sequence boundaries. The subsidence rates around the shelf break reached as much as 0.6 mm/year since MIS 10, which contributed to the well-preserved depositional sequence. During the Quaternary sea-level change, the water depth in the Korea Strait declined and the intensity of the Tsushima Current flowing near the bottom of the inner continental shelf increased. This resulted in greater erosion of sediments that were delivered to the outer continental shelf, which was the main cause of sediment deposition on the deep, low-angled outer shelf. Therefore, a depositional sequence formation model that consists of only FSSTs and LSTs, excluding highstand systems tracts (HSTs) and transgressive systems tracts (TSTs), best explains the depositional sequence beneath this shelf margin dominated by a geostrophic current.
ISSN
0276-0460
URI
https://sciwatch.kiost.ac.kr/handle/2020.kiost/899
DOI
10.1007/s00367-017-0524-4
Bibliographic Citation
GEO-MARINE LETTERS, v.38, no.3, pp.259 - 272, 2018
Publisher
SPRINGER
Subject
WEDGE SYSTEMS TRACT; LATE QUATERNARY; KOREA PLATEAU; STRANDED PARASEQUENCES; STRATAL ARCHITECTURE; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES; CONTINENTAL-SHELF; LEVEL CHANGES; JAPAN SEA; HOLOCENE
Type
Article
Language
English
Document Type
Article
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