진해만 환경평가를 위한 해저지하수의 중요성

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Bottom sea waters in eight stations including from inner bay to outer bay to understand the importance of the submarine groundwater discharge for the environmental assessment of Chinhae Bay was collected in August 1999 and January 2000. Generally, ²²²Rn is very useful tracer to assess the submarine groundwater discharge because it is 2-4 orders of magnitude more concentrated in groundwater compared to surface water. The ²²²Rn activities ranged between about 33 to 182 dpm/100㎏ within the bay. Higher activities more than 100 dpm/100㎏ were found at the inner bay. The ²²?Ra activities, its parent, however, were little different between stations. ²²²Rn activities at the same station varied with season. It suggests that the major source of ²²²Rn is not from the buttom sediment, but from the change of submarine groundwater discharge by precipitation. The contents of Cl? and SO₄²? in the groundwater of Wonjeon-ri were very high as 1,312 and 369ppm, respectively, indicating that this groundwater along the Chinhae coast was affected by seawater. Therefore, the submarine groundwater in the inner Bay may discharge to the overlying water. It indicates that these submarine groundwater discharges may play an important role as another important source of nutrients in the Chinhae Bay, because groundwater around the Chinhae Bay showed high concentration of dissolved inorganic nutrients (average; nitrate＞174 μM, silicate＞262 μM). Therefore, further studies are required to assess the contribution by the submarine groundwater discharge in the biogeochemical processes of the Chinhae Bay.