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On the Latest Tectonic Environment Around Northern Part of the Yangsan Fault, Korea

양산단층 북부 일대의 최후기 지구조환경에 대해

  • Ryoo, Chung-Ryul (Mineral Resources Research Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources) ;
  • Kang, Ji-Hoon (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Andong National University) ;
  • Kang, Hee-Cheol (Department of Geological Sciences, Pusan National University)
  • 류충렬 (한국지질자원연구원 광물자원연구본부) ;
  • 강지훈 (안동대학교 지구환경과학과) ;
  • 강희철 (부산대학교 지질환경과학과)
  • Received : 2018.08.29
  • Accepted : 2018.09.29
  • Published : 2018.09.30
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Abstract

Geologic structures related to the latest event in the evolution around Gyeongsang Basin are mainly associated with the Yangsan Fault. In particular, the structures in the northern part of the Yangsan Fault are mainly observed in the region between Bogyeongsa Temple and Danguri. Such structures are also clustered in the vicinity of the Yangsan Fault, exhibiting similar geometric and kinematic patterns. In general, N-S and NE-SW trending fractures and tectonogeomorphic lineament are mainly eastward dipping reverse faults, such that the blocks in the east of the structures moved west or northwest. The reverse faults are segmented by NW trending fractures that accommodate strike-slip movements. The reverse faults and geomorphotectonic lineaments related to the latest event of deformation in the northern part of the Yangsan Fault show a westward convex patterns. We infer that these structures were initially normal faults that formed during a NW-SE extensional environment and were later reactivated during an E-W compressional one. Such a deformation pattern is also well developed around Pohang-Heunghae area based on the tectonogeomorphic analysis, which appears to be closely related to the Pohang Earthquake (15 Nov. 2017), and its development of the surface rupture and highly damaged zones.

한반도 동남부에 발달하는 중생대 백악기의 경상분지를 변형시키는 최후기의 구조들은 주로 양산단층대를 따라 발달하며, 양산단층대의 북부에서는 보경사와 단구리 사이에서 주로 관찰된다. 이러한 구조들은 양산단층 뿐만 아니라 그 주변에서도 유사한 기하와 운동학적인 양상을 보이며 관찰되고 있다. 대체로 남-북내지 북동 방향의 단열 또는 지형지구조선의 동측이 서쪽이나 북서쪽으로 올라탄 운동을 보이며, 주로 북서방향의 단열 또는 지형지구조선들을 따라 주향이동성운동을 하며 보조단층의 역할을 한 것으로 해석된다. 양산단층대 북부 지역의 역단층들은 대부분 서쪽으로 볼록한 선상구조를 보이는 특징을 가지는데, 이들은 아마도 북서-남동 방향으로의 인장 시기에 형성된 정단층들이 후기에 동-서 방향의 압축에 의해 재활동한 것으로 사료된다. 이러한 특징은 포항-흥해 일대의 지형지구조 분석에서도 비슷한 양상으로 나타나며, 11.15 포항지진과 관련된 지표단열들의 발생과 심한 피해지역의 분포와 구조적 연관성을 가지는 것으로 보인다.

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