To investigate the possibility of discrimination between organic and non-organic rice using stable isotope nitrogen of natural abundance, organic rice of 17 samples and non-organic rice of 13 samples grown at adjoining organic rice field were collected in 2008. Rice was grinded into brown rice, milled rice and hull, and samples were analysed for nitrogen and δ¹⁵N at NICEM. Authors also made inquiries about N source for both farmers who conduct organic- and non-organic rice cultivation. In order to know whether the δ¹⁵N can be used in discrimination between organic and non-organic rice, discriminant analysis were made with SPSS and logistic method. 1. Organic farmers used manure, rice bran, used mushroom culture, fermented fertilizer (company products), and oil cake, but non-organic farmers applied compound fertilizer. Rice straws were remained in organic rice field while moved out in non-organic field. 2. There were difference in δ¹⁵N among organic rice and its byproduct(7.760‰ in hull, 6.720‰ in rice), but significant difference was not found between them. And the trend was same between province. Non-organic rice showed similar results. 3. Significant difference of δ¹⁵N were found between organic rice and non-organic rice (p＜0.01) and between hull of organic rice and that of non-organic rice hull (p＜0.05). δ¹⁵N seemed to be useful criteria for discrimination of organic and non-organic rice. 4. When applied discrimination analysis of SPSS and logistic, there were significant difference between organic rice, non-organic rice and its byproducts except brown rice and hull in SPSS method. Hull can be used as the most useful component for unknown sample prediction with 83.3% probability.

경북 영덕의 유금광상은 경상분지 북동부 백악기 화강암체 내에 배태되어 있으며, 함금 열수석영맥은 모암인 영해 화강섬록암 내에 N19˚~38˚W 주향의 단층대를 따라 충진되었다. 열수 유체의 유입은 크게 세 시기로 나누어 볼 수 있는데, 첫 번째 시기는 광화되지 않은 소량의 석영맥이 생성되었고, 두 번째 시기에는 다량의 금속원소와 이에 수반된 금을 함유한 유체가 유입되었으며, 세 번째 시기에는 다량의 황화광물이 침전되었다. 금 광화작용을 수반한 열수 유체는 황철석, 황동석, 방연석, 섬아연석, 그리고 유비철석 등의 다양한 황화광물들을 침전시켰으며, 에렉트럼 내 Au의 함량은 최대 92 wt%까지 매우 높은 편이다. 초기 금 광화작용 시기의 유체의 온도와 압력은 각각 220~250℃와 730~1800 bar의 범위를 보이며, 이때 산소분압은 10-27~10-31.7 atm에 이른다. 반면, 광화 후기에서의 유체의 온도와 압력은 각각 250~350℃와 206~472 bar의 범위를 보이며, 산소분압은 10-26.3~10-28.6 atm에 해당하고, 황화광물과 H2S의 δ34S 값은 각각 0.2~4.2˚/˚˚의 범위와 1.0~3.7˚/˚˚범위를 보여준다. 유금광상에서 산출되는 에렉트럼은 0.15~1.10 범위의 Ag/Au 원자비를 보인다. 주광화작용이 진행되는 동안 비교적 높은 온도 조건과 4.5~5.5 의 pH 범위에서 광화유체 내에서 Au(HS)2-의 안정성을 감소되고, 상대적으로 AuCl2- 의 안정성은 증가되었다. 압력조건을 고려 할 때 광화유체는 350℃ 이상의 온도에 이르렀으며 용액 중 AuCl2-가 중요한 운반 수단이었을 것으로 생각된다. 광화작용이 진행되면서, 온도와 log fo2의 감소가 일어남에 따라 AuCl2-의 용해도는 낮아지고 황화물들의 침전이 일어나며 이와 함께 에렉트럼도 침전하였을 것으로 생각된다.

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.