본 연구는 남한강 중류의 좌안에 분포하는 하성 고위면의 지형특성과 그 단구퇴적층을 모재로 발달한 토양특성을 밝히는데 있다. 조사토양인 적색토는 토양의 형태적, 물리 화학적 및 점토광물의 특성으로 보아 적색토로 분류된다. 토양특성과 고위면의 지형적 특성으로 보아 본 적색토는 제4기의 현재와는 다른 생물 기후환경차에서 탈규산화 작용과 적색토화 작용에 의하여 생성된 고적색토로 사료된다.

The purpose of this study is to clarify the landform development of fluvial terrace and the soil characteristics occurring on the terrace deposit. In order to achieve the purpose, the characteristics of soil profiles, the physic-chemical properties of soils that are developed on terrace deposits and X-ray diffraction analysis of clay were investigated. The horizon of Al in the high fluvial surface is silt clay loam of red (2YR 4/6). The soil structure is a developed granular structure. The horizon of B1 is silt clay reddish-brown (2.5YR 4/6). The soil structure is a medium subangular blocky structure. This red soil structure is made on heavy textured and compactly packed parent materials of high terrace sediments and usually has A-B-C profile. In most cases, clay accumulations in B-horizon and clay cutans on ped surfaces are observed, which mean the formation of agrillic horizon. As the result of this study, soils derived from fluvial terrace deposits on high fluvial surfaces are considered paleo-red soil which were developed by pedogenese-strong desilicification and rubefaction and strong leaching of bases- under warmer bio-climatic condition during in the old Pleistocene period.

• 강영복(충북대학교 지리교육과) | Kang, Young-Pork
• 이상민(충북대학교 지리교육과) | 이상민