Delegation of Geology visited Taiwan
At the invitation of the National Cheng Kung University, Dr. Zhen Sun, Hai-Ling Liu and their students Fu-Cheng Li, Mei-Song Zhao concluded a twelve-day field trip of Hengchun Peninsula, Taitung, Kenting, Hualien, Taipei, Taichung and other areas in Taiwan at the invitation of the National Cheng Kung University from November 15th to 26th. The purposes of this field trip are to understand the collision geology of the Coastal Range, Central Range and Western Foothills, including distributions of accreted volcanic islands, the metamorphic basement of Taiwan and the Miocene deep-sea fan sedimentation, the differences between forearc basins and intra-arc basins, stratigraphic records of arc-continent collision, the setting and mechanism responsible for formation of the Lichi Mélange, discussions about the origin of the ophiolitic blocks in the mélange.
This team, led by Pro.Chi-Yue Huang, investigated the tectonic records of Taiwan arc-continent collision which arranged as a belt from the south to the north, also collected the samples of seep carbonate, Cenozoic strata, deep-water fan system and ophiolite suite that well exposed. The field trip gave us an opportunity to better understand the stratas of each period and the geological evolution of the accretionary prism of the Manila subduction system before and during Taiwan arc-continent collision. What’s more important was establishing the relationship between Taiwan arc-continent collision belt and South China Sea in our mind.
Because Pro.Chi-Yue Huang and we have distinctive advantages, it’s necessary to carry on cooperation with each other. The emphasis of the cooperation in future would be the tectonic evolution, including Huatung Basin, Philippine volcanic arc and Manilla subduction.
