COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Kinematic History of the Hinterlandin an Arc-Continent Collision, Taiwan

由于菲律宾海板块在欧亚板块下的俯冲作用，台湾岛正经历着活跃的变形和隆升，为研究碰撞运动学提供了天然的实验室。本项目将重点研究台湾中部腹地的运动学历史，利用弧-陆碰撞向南的传播来代表变形特征的序贯发展。将研究各种应变和运动学指标，并将结果应用于碰撞构造的几个主要假设，包括腹地是否以一致的运输方向缩短或涉及两个相反的接近运输方向，以及腹地拆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.