Impacts of arc collision on small orogens: new insights from the Coastal Range detrital record, Taiwan
Linda A. Kirstein
Andrew Carter
Yue-Gau Chen
10.6084/m9.figshare.3453563.v1
https://geolsoc.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Impacts_of_arc_collision_on_small_orogens_new_insights_from_the_Coastal_Range_detrital_record_Taiwan/3453563
<p>Taiwan is considered the archetypical orogen in the development of critical wedge models of mountain building; however, the
issue of how arc collision progressed along the margin remains poorly understood. To resolve this, the detrital archive of
orogenesis preserved in Coastal Range rocks of eastern Taiwan was used to reconstruct the erosional response of arc collision.
The spatial and temporal distribution of exhumation recorded in this detrital record is consistent with southwards progression
of arc–continent collision in a punctuated rather than sequential manner with deposition confined to segmented foredeep basins.
Apparent increases in sedimentation rates in Taiwan during the Pleistocene may not reflect increased erosion, but instead
may be due to the collisional margin architecture.
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2016-06-21 11:30:52
arc collision
collisional margin architecture
orogen
Coastal Range rocks
Coastal Range detrital record
Geology