피션트랙(fission-track: FT) 연대측정 초기단계의 부적합한 연대보정법에 기인한 오류 원인을 정밀진단하고, 중복시료에 의한 재실험과 제타보정법에 의해 최초 보고된 피션트랙(FT) 연대를 재정의한다. 재검토된 FT 저콘연대는 기반암인 유천층군 유문암질-데사이트질응회암의 생성연대를 후기 백악기부터 고제3기 초($78{\pm}4$ Ma부터 $65{\pm}2$ Ma)로 재정의하며, 곡강동유문암질응회암을 전기 에오세($52.1{\pm}2.3$ Ma) 산물로 정의한다. 전기 마이오세 화산암의 경우, 효동리화산암류 상부 데사이트질응회암($21.6{\pm}1.4$ Ma)과 범곡리화산암류 최상부 데사이트 용암($21.3{\pm}2.0$ Ma)의 FT 저콘연대는 각각 어일분지 남부와 와읍분지 중앙부의 상부 범곡리층군의 연대층서를, 그리고 금오리데사이트질응회암($19.8{\pm}1.6$ Ma)의 FT 저콘연대는 장기분지 내 후기 데사이트질 화산활동 시기를 정의한다. 데사이트질암의 FT 저콘연대와 현무암질-안산암질암의 기존 연대자료(대부분 K-Ar 전암, 일부 Ar-Ar)를 기반으로 하여, 한국 동남부의 마이오세 분지의 화산암과 기반암의 층서대비에 길잡이가 될 수 있는 참고연대를 설정 제안한다. 관계화산암의 연대에 기반하여 분지충전 퇴적지층의 퇴적시기도 추정한다. 제안된 참고연대는 마이오세 분지의 복잡한 분지구조와 비교적 짧은 연대범위에도 불구하고 지질층서에 잘 부합된다. 범곡리층군은 어일-와읍분지에서 장기층군보다 하위인 것이 확실하나, 장기분지의 전기 장기층군과 상당부분 중첩 병립되므로, 두 층군을 획일적으로 선후관계로 정의할 수는 없다. 장기분지에서 장기층군 하나로 묶여있는 일련의 지층군은 약 20 Ma를 기준으로 전기(23-20 Ma)의 안산암질-데사이트질암과 후기(20-18 Ma)의 현무암질암으로 뚜렷하게 구분된다. Erroneous fission-track (FT) ages caused by an inappropriate calibration in the initial stage of FT dating were redefined by re-experiments and zeta calibration using duplicate samples. Revised FT zircon ages newly define the formation ages of Yucheon Group rhyolitic-dacitic tuffs as Late Cretaceous to Early Paleocene ($78{\pm}4$ Ma to $65{\pm}2$ Ma) and Gokgangdong rhyolitic tuff as Early Eocene ($52.1{\pm}2.3$ Ma). In case of the Early Miocene volcanics, FT zircon ages from a dacitic tuff of the upper Hyodongri Volcanics ($21.6{\pm}1.4$ Ma) and a dacitic lava of the uppermost Beomgokri Volcanics ($21.3{\pm}2.0$ Ma) define chronostratigraphies of the upper Beomgokri Group, respectively in the southern Eoil Basin and in the Waeup Basin. A FT zircon age ($19.8{\pm}1.6$ Ma) from the Geumori dacitic tuff defines the time of later dacitic eruption in the Janggi Basin. Based on FT zircon ages for dacitic rocks and previous age data (mostly K-Ar whole-rock, partly Ar-Ar) for basaltic-andesitic rocks, reference ages are recommended as guides for stratigraphic correlations of the Miocene volcanics and basements in SE Korea. The times of accumulation of basin-fill sediments are also deduced from ages of related volcanics. Recommended reference ages are well matched to the whole stratigraphic sequences despite complicated basin structures and a relative short time-span. The Beomgokri Group evidently predates the Janggi Group in the Eoil-Waeup basins, while it is placed at an overlapped time-level along with the earlier Janggi Group in the Janggi Basin. Therefore, the two groups cannot be uniformly defined in a sequential order. The Janggi Group of the Janggi Basin can be evidently subdivided by ca. 20 Ma-basis into two parts, i.e., the earlier (23-20 Ma) andesitic-dacitic and later (20-18 Ma) basaltic strata.
옥천대 남서부인 전주-김제-정읍일대 쥬라기 화강암질 저반체로부터 구한 FT 연대는 넓은 범위에 걸쳐 나타난다: 스핀=158~70 Ma; 저콘=127~71 Ma; 인회석=72~46 Ma. 교란되지 않은 일차냉각 및 리셋 또는 부분감소된 FT 연대, 그리고 일부 트랙 길이 측정자료에 기반한 열연대학적 해석을 통해 화강암체가 겪은 복잡한 지열사를 규명하였다. 이 화강암체의 전체 냉각사는 정출 후 $300^{\circ}C$ 등온선까지의 비교적 빠른 전기 냉각(${\sim}20^{\circ}C/Ma$)과 $300^{\circ}C-200^{\circ}C-100^{\circ}C$ 등온선을 거쳐 현재 지표온도에 이르기까지의 매우 느린 후기 냉각($2.0{\sim}1.5^{\circ}C/Ma$)으로 특징지어진다. 이 쥬라기 화강암체의 많은 부분은 일련의 후기 백악기 화성활동에 의해 적어도 $170^{\circ}C$ 이상(최고 >$330^{\circ}C$)의 다양한 수준에 달하는 지열상승을 겪은 것으로 확인되었다. 다양한 후기 화성암체들의 두 지점으로부터 중복측정된 FT 저콘 연대의 일치된 결과는 그들의 생성시기를 잘 정의한다: 석영반암=$73{\pm}3Ma$; 섬록암=$73{\pm}2Ma$; 유문암=$72{\pm}3Ma$; 장석반암=$78{\pm}4Ma$ (전체 가중평균=$73{\pm}3Ma$). 이들 후기 화성암체와 페그마타이트 암맥군의 관입은 온천개발지역(화심, 죽림, 목욕리, 회봉 등)을 위시한 연구지역 내에서의 후기 지열상승에 주요 역할을 하였던 것으로 해석된다. 이 화강암 저반체의 후기냉각이 지표면의 침식-삭박에 따른 상대적 융기에 의해 근본적으로 규제되었다고 가정하면, 전기 백악기 이후의 융기는 연간 평균 약 0.05 mm (즉 백만 년에 약 50 m)의 매우 느린 속도로 진행되었다. 100 Ma, 70 Ma, 40 Ma를 기준으로 현재까지의 총융기량은 각각 5 km, 3.5 km, 2 km 정도로 추정된다. 여러 지점의 일정한 융기량은 암체 전체가 광역적으로 고르게 융기하였음을 지시한다. Wide ranges of fission-track (FT) ages were obtained from the Jurassic granite batholith in Jeonju-Gimje-Jeongeup area, southwestern Okcheon Belt: sphene=158~70 Ma; zircon=127~71 Ma; apatite=72~46 Ma. Thermochronological analyses based on undisturbed primary cooling and reset or partially-reduced FT ages, and some track-length data reveal complicated thermal histories of the granite. The overall cooling of the batholith is characterized by a relatively rapid earlier-cooling (${\sim}20^{\circ}/Ma$) to $300^{\circ}C$ isotherm since its crystallization and a very slow later-cooling ($2.0{\sim}1.5^{\circ}/Ma$) through the $300^{\circ}C-200^{\circ}C-100^{\circ}C$ isotherms to the present surface temperature. It is indicated that the large part of Jurassic granitic body experienced different level of elevated temperatures at least above $170^{\circ}C$ (maximum>$330^{\circ}C$) by a series of igneous activities in late Cretaceous. Consistent FT zircon ages from duplicate measurements for two sites of later igneous bodies define their formation ages: e.g., quartz porphyry=$73{\pm}3Ma$; diorite=$73{\pm}2Ma$; rhyolite=$72{\pm}3Ma$; feldspar porphyry=$78{\pm}4Ma$ (total weighted average=$73{\pm}3Ma$). Intrusions of these later igneous bodies and pegmatitic dyke swarms might play important roles in later thermal rise over the study area including hot-spring districts (e.g., Hwasim, Jukrim, Mogyokri, Hoebong etc.). On the basis of an assumption that the latercooling of granite batholith was essentially controlled by the denudation of overlying crust, the uplift since early Cretaceous was very slow with a mean rate of ~0.05 mm/year (i.e., ~50 m/Ma). Estimates of total uplifts since 100 Ma, 70 Ma and 40 Ma to present-day are ~5 km, ~3.5 km and ~2 km, respectively. The consistent values of total uplifts from different locations may suggest a regional plateau uplift with a uniform rate over the whole granitic body.
Fission track (FT) thermochronological analyses on Mesozoic granites provide new information about cooling and uplift histories in Southeast Korea. Twenty-nine new FT sphene, zircon and apatite ages and seven track length measurements are presented for eleven granite samples. Measured mineral ages against assumed closure temperatures yield cooling rates for each sample. Relatively rapid (7-/Ma) and simple cooling patterns from the middle Cretaceouss (ca. 90-100 Ma) granites are caused mainly by a high thermal contrast between the intruding magma and country rocks at shallow crustal levels (ca. 1-2.5 km-depths). On the contrary, a slow overall cooling (1-/Ma) of the Triassic to Jurassic granites (ca. 250-200 Ma), emplaced at deep depths (>>9 km), may mainly depend upon very slow denudation of the overlying crust. The uplift history of the Triassic Yeongdeog Pluton in the Yeongyang Subbasin, west of the Yangsan Fault, is characterized by a relatively rapid uplift (~0.4 mm/a) before the total unroofing of the pluton in the earliest Cretaceous (~140 Ma) followed by a subsidence (~0.2mm/a) during the Hayang Group sedimentation. Stability of original FT zircon ages (156 Ma) and complete erasure of apatite ages suggest a range of 3 to 5.5 km for the basin subsidence. Since 120 Ma up to present, the Yeongyang Subbasin has been slowly uplifted (~0.04 mm/a). The FT age patterns of Jurassic granites both from the northeastern wing of the Ryeongnam Massif and from the northern edge of the Pohang-Kampo Block indicate that the two geologic units have been slowly uplifted with a same mean rate (~0.04 mm/a) since early Cretaceous. Estimates of Cenozoic total uplifts since 100 Ma are different: Ryeongnam Massif (~6 km)=Pohang-Kampo Block (~6 km)>Yeongyang Subbasin(~4 km).
Whole rock and mineral ages for the Jecheon Granite distributed in the Ogcheon Fold Belt were dated by three radiometric methods, and its thermal history was elucidated as follows, on the basis of isotopic age data. Rb and Sr isotopic compositions of three whole rock and seven mineral concentrates made an isochron of 202.7 1.9 Ma with a strontium initial ratio of 0.7140. Different age data of twelve mineral concentrates agree closely with the retention temperature of each mineral in K-Ar and Fission Track methods. The Jecheon granitic magma was generated by partial melting of crustal materials (S-type), or by mixins between mantle and crustal materials, intruded into the katazone or mesozone (7∼9 km) of the Ogcheon Fold Belt, at least in the Early Jurassic (about 203 Ma), and then crystallized and cooled down rapidly from about 600 to 300 (more than 20/Ma), owing to thermal differences between the magma and the wall-rock. During the Middle to Late Jurassic (190∼140 Ma), the cooling of the granite was likely to stop and keep thermal equilibrium with the wall-rock. The severe tectonism associated with igneous activities and active weathering on the surface in Early to Late Cretaceous time (140∼70 Ma) might have accelerated the granite pluton to uplift rapidly (40∼60 m/Ma in average) up to 3∼4 km and cooled down from 300 to 200 (1.4 /Ma). The granite pluton was likely to keep different uplifting and cooling rate of about 120 m/Ma and 5/Ma in average from the Late Cretaceous to Early Tertiary (70∼50 Ma), and about 60 m/Ma and 2/Ma in average from about 50 Ma up to the present, respectively.
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