The purpose of the present study is to estimate the release of dissolved inorganic nitrogen and phosphorous from sediments of Deukryang Bay. One method used in this study is to calculate nutrients released from a concentration gradient between sediment porewaters and the overlying water based on the Fick`s law, and the other method is to measure nutrients released from the sediment-core experiments. The calculated and measured ammonium released from the sediments were 8.93㎍-atN/㎡·hr and 60.4㎍-atN/㎡·hr, respectively in July. 8.57㎍- atN/㎡·hr and 32.9㎍-atN/㎡·hr, respectively in October. The ammonium was released more highly in July than in October, and the measured ammonium flux was higher than the calculated one. The calculated nitrate plus nitrite released from the sediments were 0.31㎍-atN/㎡·hr in July and 0.84㎍-atN/㎡·hr in October. The measured nitrate plus nitrite released from the sediments was 282㎍-atN/㎡·hr in October. The calcuated was lower than the measured because the content of the nutrients in the sediments was always much more than in the overlying waters, and it has shown a differently seasonal pattern compared to the ammonium flux. The calculated phosphorous released from the sediments were 0.97㎍-atN/㎡·hr and measured negative fluxed -6.50 ㎍-atN/㎡·hr in July, and calculated 0.18 ㎍-atN/㎡·hr and measured 24.6 ㎍-atN/㎡·hr, respectively in October.

Thirty-eight sediment samples collected from the Youngsan River channel were analysed for Fe, Mn, Co, Cr, Cu, Ni, Zn and Pb to recognize the extent of contamination. Results showed that a wide range of contents was apparent for every metal over the study area. These differences have been mainly related to the textural variability of sediments. Exceptions to this were found in the contents of Cu, Zn, Pb and possibly Mn. The contents of Cu, Zn, Pb and Mn were particularly higher in the sediments from the confluence of tributaries. Downstream profile of metal/Al ratios indicates that pollutant inputs from the Kwangju tributary are mainly responsible for enrichment of these metals in bed sediments of the Youngsan River.

A total of 24 surface sediment samples collected from coastal region and fronting of sea cliff on Cape Cod in southeastern Massachusetts, were analyzed to investigate the sediment transport mechanism. According to the result of grain-size analysis, the overall trend of grain size decreases from the north(Wood End Beach) to the south(Nauset Light Beach). The coarser materials tend to be deposited at the foreshore than at the backshore. Especially gravel content(%) is very high in northern beaches. The gravel fraction tended to concentrate at the toe of the beach. In addition to gravel, the beach and nearshore bar also tended to be deposite of very coarse sand and the finer fraction accumulate in the offshore bar. Grain-size analyses of sediment indicates that the coarsest sands including gravel accumulate in the beach and nearshore bar, the finer fraction winnowed out by wave action to be deposited in the offshore bar. The beach and nearshore bar sands and gravel are subsequently transported laterally by the wave-driven longshore drift, and finally they come to rest in the distal end of Provincetown Hook. The finer offshore sands are trnasported laterally to the south by net southward-directed longshore current.

The temporal variations of the suspended material concentration (SMC) during spring-neap tidal cycle was investigated at more than 30 stations in Deukryang Bay, Korea, in 1 and 23 July, 1992. The averaged total SMC in spring tide was two times more than those in neap tide. It can be explained that the strong tidal current in spring tide disturbed bottom waters and induced higher SMC in the bay. The areal distributions of SMC for the surface and the bottom layers in the bay shows much different patterns during spring and neap tidal cycle. We concluded that the vertical stratification intensity of water mass is important factor of the horizonatal distribution of SMC in the bay.

In the Chinhae Bay, Korea, sedimentation rates and sedimentary record of anthropogenic metal loads were determined by ^210Pb dating and heavy metal analysis of four sediment cores. The sedimentation rates varied from 0.16g/㎠/yr(3.1㎜/yr) at Sta. C4, located within narrow waterway to 0.24g/㎠/yr(4.8㎜/yr) at Sta. C1, located in Haengam Bay. Maximum contents of Mn, Zn, Cu and Cr were observed at Sta. C2 located near the mouth of Masan Bay, while minimum contents were observed at Sta. C4. Mn/Fe ratios at Sta. C2 and Sta. C4 showed gradually increasing and decreasing downward, respectively, in the upper layer of sediment cores. This suggests that Mn may be diagenetically redistributed in highly reduced environment. At Sta. C2, the concentrations of Zn and Cu began to increase from 1920s by anthropogenic input and have been remarkablely increasing since mid 1960s. At Sta. C3, located near Sungpo, anthropogenic input of these two elements has also slightly increased after 1970s. However, pollution of these two elements was not significant in Haengam Bay(Sta. C1) and Chiljun waterway(Sta. C4). The pollution of Co, Ni and Cr was not remarkable in all core samples except surface sediment of Sta. C2. The total input of anthropogenic Zn and Cu since 1920s was estimated to be 28∼792 ㎍/㎠ and 0∼168㎍/㎠, respectively. Sta. C2 showed remarkablely higher values relative to other stations: anthropogenic loads of Zn and Cu constituted 27% and 29% of the total sedimentary inventories at the present day, respectively. Fe, Ni, Cr and Co contents showed good correlation(r>0.8) with each other. Anthropogenic Zn and Cu also showed a very good positive correlation(>0.9). However, correlation between these two group of element was quite scattered, indicating different sources and geochemical behaviors.

그레자이트가 한국에서는 최초로 남동 황해 대륙붕의 준표층 니질퇴적물에서 발견되었다. 이 지역의 수심은 70~80m이며, 표층 퇴적물은 수십cm 두께의 사질과 니질퇴적물이 교호하는 것으로 보아 조류의 영향을 받은 홀로세의 해침에 의하여 형성된 것으로 보인다. 그레자이트 입자는 0.1~2mm의 크기에 구상의 형태로 산출되며 니질퇴적물 내에 산점상으로 산포되어 있거나 0.5cm 정도의 엽리를 형성하고 있다. 이 광물은 강한 자성을 가지고 있으며 육안으로는 검은색을 띄나, 반사현미경하에서는 황백색을 띠며 등방성을 보인다. 그레자이트의 화학조성은 Fe=54.36, S=42.37, As=0.14, Si=2.25 wt.%로서 S=4일 때의 화학식은 Fe2.95S4이다. X-선 회절분석에 의한 단위포의 크기는=9.8635a, V=959.6a3이며 밀도는 4.094 gm/cc이다. 이 광물은 산출상태, 조직적 특징 및 수반광물의 종류로 보아 생물의 활동에 의한 환원조건의 니질퇴적물 내에서 자생한 것으로 추정된다.

Concentrations of sulfate and δ-values of sulfate, (δ^34SO_4)_pw, dissolved in pore waters were measured from the sediment cores of the two different marine environments: deep northeast Pacific (ST-1) and coastal Kyunggi Bay of Yellow Sea (ST-2). Sulfate concentration in pore waters decreases with depth at both cores, reflecting sulfate reduction in the sediment columms. However, much higher gradient of pore water sulfate at ST-2 than ST-1 indicates more rapid sulfate reduction at ST-2 because of high sedimentation rate at the coastal area compared to the deep-sea. The measured 6-values, (δ^34SO_4)_pw, follow extremely well the predicted trend of the Rayleigh fractionation equation. The range of 26.7‰ to 61.3‰ at the coastal core ST-2 is not so great as that of 32.4‰ to 97.8‰ at the deep-sea core ST-1. Despite greater gradient of pore water sulfate at ST-2, the δ-values become lower than those of the deepsea core ST-1. This inverse relation between the S-values and the gradients of pore water sulfate could be explained by the combination of the two subsequent factors: the kinetic effect by which the residual pore water sulfate becomes progressively enriched with respect to the heavy isotope of ^34S as sulfate reduction proceeds, and the intrinsic formulation effect of the Rayleigh fractionation equation in which the greater becomes the fractionation factor, the more diminished values of (δ^34SO_4)_pw are predicted.