COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Kinematic History of Hinterland in an Arc-Continent Collision, Taiwan

由于菲律宾海板块俯冲到欧亚板块之下，台湾岛正在经历活跃的形变和隆升，为研究碰撞运动学提供了天然的实验室。本项目将以台湾中部腹地地区运动学历史为重点，利用弧陆碰撞向南传播的优势，代表形变特征的顺序发展。将研究各种应变和运动学指标，其结果将被应用于碰撞构造的几个主要假设，包括腹地是否在缩短，运输方向一致，还是涉及两个相反的输送方向，以及在腹地去顶过程中构造剥蚀和侵蚀的相对重要性。

The island of Taiwan is undergoing active deformation and uplift as a result of subduction of the Philippine Sea plate under the Eurasian plate, and provides a natural laboratory to study the kinematics of collision. This project will focus on the kinematic history of the hinterland region of central Taiwan, taking advantage of the southward propagation of the arc-continent collision to proxy sequential development of deformation features. A variety of strain and kinematic indicators will be studied and the results will be applied to several major hypotheses of collision tectonics including whether the hinterland is shortening with a consistent transport direction or involves two oppositely verging transport directions and the relative importance of tectonic denudation and erosion during unroofing of the hinterland.