FIELD TRIP of Caltech and Taiwanese students 2008
Day 1 – Monday 6/16 Taipei
Recovery from Jet lag; Visit at Dept. Geosciences
Trip introduction and lectures on general geology of Taiwan
Hotel: guesthouse of NTU (reserved)
Shyu, J. B.H., Sieh, K, Chen, Y.G., and Liu, C.S. (2005) The neotectonic architecture of Taiwan and its implications for future large earthquakes. J. Geophys. Res. 110, B08402, doi:10.1029/2004JB003251.
Ho, C.S., A synthesis of the geologic evolution of Taiwan, Tectonophysics, 125, 1-16, 1986.
Suppe, J. (1981) Mechanics of mountain building in Taiwan, Mem. Geol. Soc. China, 4, 67-89.
Day 2 – 6/17 Taipei to Taichung
(Depart from Taipei)
(1) Deformed Quaternary Tableland and the Frontal Thrust systems.
(2) Surface rupture of the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake.
(3) ÒGreat CanyonÓ of the Ta-An chi at Cholan.
Stops: Huo-Yan-Shan, Bi-Fong Bridge, Nei-Wan
Hotel: Taichung
Chen, Y.G., Chen, W.S., Wang, Y., Lo, P.W., Lee, J.C. and Liu, T.K. (2002) Geomorphic evidence for prior earthquakes: Lessons from the 1999 Chichi earthquake in central Taiwan. Geology 30(2), 171-174.
Lee, J.C., Chu, H.T., Angelier, J., Chan, Y.C., Hu, J.C., Lu, C.Y., and Rau, R.J., 2002. Geometry and structure of northern surface ruptures of the 1999 Mw=7.6 Chi-Chi, Taiwan earthquake: influence from inherited fold belt structures, Jour. Struct. Geol., 24 (1), 173-192.
Ota, Y., Chen, Y.G., and Chen. W.S. (2005) Review of paleoseismological and active fault studies in Taiwan in the light of the Chichi earthquake of September 21, 1999, Tectonophysics 408, 63-77.
Lee, Y.H., Lu, S.T., Shih, T.S., Hsieh, M.L., and Wu, W.Y. (2005) Structures Associated with the Northern End of the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake Rupture, Central Taiwan: Implications for Seismic-Hazard Assessment, BSSA, Vol.95, No. 2, 471 - 485.
Day 3 -6/18 Taichung to Nantou
(1) Surface rupture of the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake.
(2) Transect of the Fold-and-thrust belt.
Stops: Pa-Kua-Shan
Hotel: Chiayi
Simoes, M., J. P. Avouac, Y.-G. Chen, A. K. Singhvi, C.-Y. Wang, M. Jaiswal, Y.-C. Chan, and S. Bernard (2007), Kinematic analysis of the Pakuashan fault tip fold, west central Taiwan: Shortening rate and age of folding inception, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B03S14, doi:10.1029/2005JB004198.
Day 4 -6/19 Nantou to Tainan
(1) Fold-and-thrust belt (or accretionary wedge) in Southwestern Taiwan.
(2) Mud volcanoes and bad land.
Stops: Tian-Liao
Hotel: Tainan
Hung, J.H., Wiltschko, D.V., Lin, H.C., Hickman, J.H., Fang, P. and Bock Y. (1999) Structure and motion of the southwestern Taiwan Fold and Thrust belt. TAO, 10, p. 543-568.
Day 5 -6/20 Tainan to Kenting
(1) Different geomorphic features in the frontal thrust zone in southwestern Taiwan: the Tainan tableland, Xiaguangshan uplift coral reef.
(2) Kenting mŽlange.
(3) Uplift coral reef and marine terraces.
Stops: Tai-Nan Tableland, Bao-Li-Ci
Hotel: Hengchun
Chang, C.P., Angelier, J., Lee, T.Q. and Huang, C.Y. (2003) From continental margin extension to collision orogen: Structural development of the Hengchun Peninsula and tectonic rotation, southern Taiwan. Tectonophysics, 361, 61-82.
Gong, S.Y., Wang, S.W. and Lee, T.Y. (1998) Pleistocene coral reefs associated with claystones, Southwestern Taiwan. Coral Reefs (1998) 17 : 215-222
Lacombe, O., Mouthereau, F., Deffontaines, B., Angelier, J., Chu, H.T. and Lee, C.T. (1999), Geometry and Quaternary kinematics of fold-and-thrust units of southwestern Taiwan, Tectonics, 18(6), 1198–1223.
Day 6 -6/21 Kenting to Taitung
(1) Lichi mŽlange.
(2) Active faults along the southernmost Longitudinal Valley.
Stops: Tai-Dong Bridge
Hotel: Taitung
Shyu, J.B.H., Sieh, K., Chen,Y.G., Chuang, R.Y., Wang, Y. and Chung, L.H. (2008) Geomorphology of the southernmost Longitudinal Valley fault: Implications for evolution of the active suture of eastern Taiwan, Tectonics, 27, TC1019, doi:10.1029/2006TC002060.
Shyu, J.B.H.*, Chung, L.H., Chen, Y.G., Lee, J.C., and Sieh, K. (2007) Re-evaluation of the surface ruptures of the November 1951 earthquake series in eastern Taiwan, and its neotectonic implications. J. Asian Earth Sci. 31, 317–331. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2006.07.018.
Page, B.M., and J. Suppe (1981) The Pliocene Lichi melange of Taiwan; its plate-tectonic and olistostromal origin, Amer. Jour. Sci., 281 (3), 193-227.
Chang, C.P., Angelier, J. and Huang, C.Y., Origin and evolution of a melange: the active plate boundary and suture zone of the Longitudinal Valley, Taiwan, Tectonophysics 325 (2000) 43-62.
Lee, J.C., Angelier, J., Chu, H.T., Yu, S.B., and Hu, J.C., 1998. Plate-boundary strain partitioning along the sinistral collision suture of the Philippine and Eurasian plates: Analysis of geodetic data and geological observation in southeastern Taiwan: Tectonics, 17, 6, 859-871.
Day 7 -6/22 Taitung to Rueyshui
Active faults at the plate suture along the Longitudinal Valley.
Stops:
Hotel: Rueyshui
Shyu, J.B.H.*, Chung, L.H., Chen, Y.G., Lee, J.C., and Sieh, K. (2007) Re-evaluation of the surface ruptures of the November 1951 earthquake series in eastern Taiwan, and its neotectonic implications. J. Asian Earth Sci. 31, 317–331. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2006.07.018
Shyu, J.B.H.*, Sieh, K., Chen, Y.G., Chung, L.H. (2006) Geomorphic analysis of the Central Range fault, the second major active structure of the Longitudinal Valley suture, eastern Taiwan. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 118, 1447-1462.
Angelier, J., Chu, H.T., and Lee, J.C., 1997. Shear concentration in a collision zone: kinematics of the active Chihshang Fault, Longitudinal Valley, eastern Taiwan: Tectonophysics, 274, 117-144.
Lee, J.C., Angelier, J., Chu, H.T., Hu, J.C., and Jeng, F.S., 2001. Continuous monitoring of an active fault in a plate suture zone: a creepmeter study of the Chihshang active fault, eastern Taiwan, Tectonophysics, 333, 219-240.
Lee, J.C., Angelier, J., Chu, H.T., Hu, J.C., Jeng, F.S., and Rau, R.J., 2003. Active fault creep variations at Chihshang, Taiwan, revealed by creepmeter monitoring, 1998-2001. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(B11), 2528, doi:10.1029/2003JB002394.
Lee, J.C., H.T. Chu, J. Angelier, J.C. Hu, H.Y. Chen, and S.B. Yu, 2006. Quantitative analysis of co-seismic surface faulting and post-seismic creep accompanying the 2003, Mw=6.5, Chengkung earthquake in eastern Taiwan, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, B02405, doi:10.1029/2005JB003612.
Day 8 -6/23 Rueyshui to Hualien
Transect and cross section of the Coastal Range along the Hsiuguoluan Rive:deformed Luzon Volcanic arc and the intra-arc basins
Stops: Siou-Gu-Luan-Ci
Hotel: Hualien
Shyu, J.B.H.*, Sieh, K., Avouac, J-P., Chen, W.S., Chen, Y.G. (2006) Millennial slip rate of the Longitudinal Valley fault from river terraces: Implications for convergence across the active suture of eastern Taiwan. J. Geophys. Res. 111, B08403, doi:10.1029/2005JB003971.
Hsu, T.L. (1976) Neotectonics of the Longitudinal Valley, Eastern Taiwan, Bull. Geol. Sur. Taiwan, 25, 43-53.
Teng, L.S., and Y. Wang (1981) Island arc system of the Coastal Range, eastern Taiwan, Proc. Geol. Soc. China, 24, 99-112.
Song, S.R., Lo. H.J. and Chen, W.S. (1994) Origin of clastic dikes in the Coastal Range, eastern Taiwan with implications for sedimentary processes during the arc-continent collision: J. Geol. Soc. China 37, 407-424.
Day 9 -6/24 Hualien-Taroko-Hualien
Ductile deformation of poly-metamorphosed pre-Tertiary basement.
Stops: Shen-Mi-Gu
Hotel: Hualien
Fisher, D.M., Lu, C.Y. and Chu, H.T. (2002) The Taiwan slate belt: insights into the ductile interior of an arc-continent collision.GSA Special Paper,358,93-120.
Day 10 -6/25 Hualien to Ilan
(1) Transect of ductile deformation of the poly-metamorphosed basement and the slate belt along the Coast Road.
(2) Visit western extremity of the Okinawa Trough: the Ilan Plain.
Stops: I-Lan
Hotel: Ilan
Sibuet, J. C., and Hsu, S. K.: How was Taiwan created?, Tectonophysics, 379, 159-186, 2004.
Day 11 -6/26 Ilan to Taipei
(1) Thrust, strike-slip and rotational tectonics of the northeastern Coast.
(2) Quaternary Tatun andesite volcanoes with hot spring fumarole and solfataras.
Stops: Long-Dong, Bei-Tou
Hotel: Taipei
Lu, C.Y., Angelier, J., Chu, H.T. (1995) Contractional, transcurrent, rotational and extensional tectonics: examples from Northern Taiwan. Tectonophysics, 1995, 246: 129-146
Day 12 -6/27 Taipei
(1) Visit to IES, Academia Sinica.
(2) Cultural sight seeing in Taipei.
Hotel: Taipei
Day 13 -6/28 Extra Day
Day 14 -6/29 Taipei to LAX