弧前盆地的形成、演化乃至消亡与板块俯冲和碰撞密切相关，记录到板块汇聚过程的地震、构造、侵蚀和岩浆等宝贵信息。由于晚新生代以来的斜向弧–陆碰撞，吕宋火山岛弧的北段露出海平面，形成台湾东部的海岸山脉。本项目将以海岸山脉残留弧前盆地及其基底的变形构造为研究对象，通过构造分析、磁组构分析、镜质体发射率测量和数值模拟，建立研究区的构造变形序列，反演各阶段的古构造应力场，阐明区域性褶皱的主导机制及其在弧前盆地和基底的表现形式，恢复残留弧前盆地的地层剥蚀厚度，最后实时再现脉弧前盆地的反转过程，揭示出在斜向弧–陆碰撞下火山岛弧变形的深部动力学特征，由此深化我们对斜向弧–陆碰撞作用的理解。

Fore-arc basins, whose birth, growth and demise closely relate to the subduction and collision of oceanic plates, contain precious information on seismogenesis, deformation, erosion, and magmatism during plate convergence. Since the late Cenozoic arc-continent collision, the northern segment of the Luzon Volcanic Arc has been exhuming as the Coastal Range, eastern Taiwan. This proposal will research into deformation structures in residual fore-arc basins and their basements in the range. Structural analysis will be integrated with magnetic fabric analysis, vitrinite reflectance measurement, and numerical simulation so as to establish the deformation sequence of the study area, to restore the tectonic stress for each stage, to determine the dominant mechanism of regional folds as well as its manifestation in the basins and basements, and to infer the denuded strata thicknesses of the basins. Based upon these results, the inversion of fore-arc basins in the area will be numerically simulated to uncover the deep dynamics beneath the volcanic arc during oblique arc-continent collision. This study will enhance our understanding the process of arc-continent collision.