References related to Taiwan orogeny

(with emphasis on the Central Range and hard-rock topics)

Compiled by C.H. Tsai

Original template courtesy of Dr. Tzen-Fu Yui

Last update on Nov 17, 2023

Barr, T. D., Dahlen, F. A., and McPhail, D. C., 1991, Brittle frictional mountain building: 3. Low-grade metamorphism. Journal of Geophysical Research, 96, 10,319-10,338.

Baziotis, I., Tsai, C.H., Ernst, W.G., Jahn, B.M., and Iizuka, Y. (2017) New P-T constraints on the Tamayen glaucophane-bearing rocks, eastern Taiwan: PERPLE_X modeling results and geodynamic implications. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 35, 35–54, doi: 10.1111/jmg.12218.

Beyssac, O., Negro, F., Simoes, M., Chan, Y.C. and Chen, Y.G. (2008) High-pressure metamorphism in Taiwan: from oceanic subduction to arc-continent collision? Terra Nova, 20, 118–125

Beyssac, O., Simoes, M., Avouac, J.P., Farley, K.A., Chen, Y.G., Chan, Y.C. and Goffe´, B. (2007) Late Cenozoic metamorphic evolution and exhumation of Taiwan. Tectonics, 26, doi:10.1029/2006TC002064.

Biq, C. (1965) The East Taiwan Rift. Petroleum Geology of Taiwan, 4, 93-106.

Biq, C. (1971) A fossil subduction zone in Taiwan. Proceedings of the Geological Society of China, 14, 146-154.

Bos, A.G. Spakman, W. (2003) Surface deformation and tectonic setting of Taiwan inferred from a GPS velocity field Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, B10, 2458, doi:10.1029/2002JB002336.

Brown, D., Wu, Y.-M., Feng, K.-F., Chao, W.-A. and Huang, H.-H. (2015) Imaging high-pressure rock exhumation in eastern Taiwan. Geology, 43, 651-654.

Byrne, T., Chan, Y.-C., Rau, R.-J., Lu, C.-Y., Lee, Y.-H., and Wang, Y.-J., 2011, The arc–continent collision in Taiwan, in Arc-Continent Collision  (eds Brown, D. and Ryan, P.D.), Frontiers in Earth Sciences, Springer, p. 213–245.

Chai, B.H.T. (1972) Structure and tectonic evolution of Taiwan. American Journal of Science, 272, 389-422.

Chen, A.T., Sanp, Y., Byrne, T.B., Takahata, N., Yang, T.F., Wang, Y. and Shen, C.C. (2017) Helium isotopic signature of a plate boundary suture in an active arc–continent collision. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 4, 1237-1246.

Chen, C.C. (1981) Granitic pegmatites of the Tungao-Nanao area, Taiwan- a product of metamorphism. Memoir of the Geological Society of China, 4, 521-536.

Chen, C.H. (1979) Geology of the east-west cross-island highway in central Taiwan. Memoir of the Geological Society of China, 3, 219-236.

Chen, C.H. (2000) A few notes on the chemistry of white micas, garnets, and chlorites. Journal of the Geological Society of China, 43, 587-614.

Chen, C.T., Chan, Y.C., Liu, C.Y., Simoes, M.,  and Beyssac, O. (2011) Nappe structure revealed by thermal constraints in the Taiwan metamorphic belt of the east-west corss-island highway in central Taiwan. Terra Nova, 23, 85-91.

Chen, C.T., Chan, Y.C., Beyssac, O., Lu, C.Y., Chen, Y.G., Malavieille, J., Kidder, S.B., and  Sun, H.C. (2019) Thermal history of the Northern Taiwanese slate belt and implications for wedge growth during the Neogene arc-continent collision. Tectonics, 38, 3335-3350.

Chen, C.T., Chan, Y.C., Lo, C.H., and Lu, C.Y. (2016) Growth of mica porphyroblasts under low-grade metamorphism – A Taiwanese case using in-situ 40Ar/39Ar laser microprobe dating. Terra Nova, 92, 1-11.

Chen, C.T., Chan, Y.C., Lo, C.H., Malavieille, J., Lu, C.Y., Tan, J.T., and  Lee, Y.H. (2018) Basal accretion, a major mechanism for mountain building in Taiwan. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 152, 80-90.

Chen, J.C. (1977) Geochemistry of metamorphic rocks from eastern Taiwan, Acta Geologica Taiwanica, 19, 38-49.

Chen, P.Y. (1963) Mineralogy and petrology of the chloritoid rock from Shakatangchi and Laohsichi area, Hualien, Taiwan. Acta Geologica Taiwanica, 10, 11-28.

Chen, P.Y. (1969) Mineralogical study of chromian thuringite from Shakatang-chi, Hualien. Acta Geologica Taiwanica, 13, 9-19.

Chen, W.M. and Yang, C.N. (1997) Chemical characteristics of amphiboles in the mafic schists of the Juisui area. Journal of the Geological Society of China, 40, 625-638.

Chen, W.S., Chung, S.L., Chou, H.Y., Zugeerbai, Z., Shao, W.Y. and Lee, Y.H. (2017) A reinterpretation of the metamorphic Yuli belt: Evidence for a middle-late Miocene accretionary prism in eastern Taiwan. Tectonics, 36, 188-206.

Chen, W.S., Huang, Y.C., Liu, C.H., Feng, H.T., Chung, S.L., and Lee, Y.H. (2016) U-Pb zircon geochronology constraints on the ages of the Tananao Schist Belt and timing of orogenic events in Taiwan: Implications for a new tectonic evolution of the South China Block during the Mesozoic. Tectonophysics, 686, 68-81.

Chi, W.C., Chen, L.W., Liu, C.S. and Brookfield, M. (2014) Development of arc–continent collision mélanges: Linking onshore geological and offshore geophysical observations of the Pliocene Lichi Mélange, southern Taiwan and northern Luzon arc, western Pacific, Tectonophysics, 636, 70-82 .

Chi, W.C. and Reed, D.L. (2008) Evolution of shallow, crustal thermal structure from subduction to collision: An example from Taiwan, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 120, 679-690.

Chu, H.T. (1981) The discovery of sillimanite in northern Taiwan. Memoir of the Geological Society of China, 4, 491-496.

Chu, H.T., Hwang, S.L., Shen, P. and Yui, T.F. (2012) Pseudotachylyte in the Tananao Metamorphic Complex, Taiwan: Occurrence and dynamic phase changes of fossil earthquakes. Tectonophysics, 581, 62–75.

Chu, J.B. and Shieh, Y.N., (1981) Oxygen and carbon isotopes and mineral chemistry of metamorphic rocks from the Nanao District, eastern Taiwan, Memoir of the Geological Society of China, 4, 583-630.

Clark, M.B. and Fisher, D. (1995) Strain partitioning and crack-seal growth of chlorite-muscovite aggregates during progressive noncoaxial strain: an example from the slate belt of Taiwan, Journal of Structural Geolology, 17, 461-474.

Clift, P. D., Schouten, H. and Draut, A. (2003) A general modal of arc-continent collision and subduction polarity reversal from Taiwan and the Irish Caledonides. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 219, 81-98.

Conand, C., Mouthereau, F., Ganne, J., Lin, A. T.-S., Lafhid, A., Daudet, M., Mesalles, L., Giletycz, S. and Bonzani, M. (2020) Strain partitioning and exhumation in oblique Taiwan collision: role of rift architecture and plate kinematics. Tectonics, 39, p. e2019TC005798.

Crespi, J.M., Chan, Y.C. and Swaim, M.S. (1996) Synorogenic extension and exhumation of the Taiwan hinterland. Geology, 24, 247-250.

Deschamps, A., Monie, P., Lallemand, S., Hsu, S.K., and Yeh, K.Y. (2000) Evidence for Early Cretaceous oceanic crust trapped in the Philippine Sea Plate. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 179, 503-516.

Ernst, W.G. (1981) Petrotectonic settings of glaucophane schist belts and some implications for Taiwan. Memoir of the Geological Society of China, 4, 229-267.

Ernst, W.G. (1983a) Mountain building and metamorphism: a case history from Taiwan. In Mountain Building (ed. K.J. Hsü), London, Academic Press, pp. 247-256.

Ernst, W.G. (1983b) Mineral parageneses in metamorphic rocks exposed along Tailuko Gorge, Central Mountain Range, Taiwan. Journal Metamorphic Geology, 1, 305-329.

Ernst, W.G. (1984) The nature of biotite isograd in the Tailuko Gorge transect, Central Mountain Range, Taiwan. Proceedings of the Geological Society of China, 27, 25-40.

Ernst, W.G. and Harnish, D. (1983) Mineralogy of some Tananao greenschists facies rocks, Mu-kua Chi area, eastern Taiwan. Proceedings of the Geological Society of China, 26, 99-112.

Ernst, W.G. and Jahn, B.M. (1987) Crustal accretion and metamorphism in Taiwan, a post-Palaeozoic mobile belt. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, A321, 129-161.

Faure, M., Monie, P. and Fabbri, O. (1988) Microtectonics and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating of high pressure metamorphic rocks of the south Ryukyu Arc and their bearings on the pre-Eocene geodynamic evolution of Eastern Asia. Tectonophysics, 156, 133-143.

Faure, M., Lu, C.Y. and Chu, H.T. (1991) Ductile deformation and Miocene nappe-stacking in Taiwan related to motion of the Philippine Sea Plate. Tectonophysics, 198, 95-105.

Fisher, D. (1999) Orogen-parallel extension in the eastern Central Range of Taiwan, Journal of the Geological Society of China, 42, 43-60.

Fisher, D., Lu, C.Y. and Chu, H.T. (2002) Taiwan Slate Belt: Insights into the ductile interior of an arc-continent collision, In Geology and Geophysics of an Arc-continent collision, Taiwan, (eds Byrne, T.B., and Liu, C.S.), Boulder, Colorado, GSA Special Paper 358, 93-106.

Fisher, D., Willett, S., Yeh, E.C. and Clark, M.B. (2007) Cleavage fronts and fans as reflections of orogen stress and kinematics in Taiwan. Geology, 35, 65-68.

Fuh, T.M. (1962) Metamorphic rocks of the Nanao district, Taiwan, with special reference to the origin of orthogneiss. Memoir Geological Society of China, 1, 113–132.

Fuh, T.M. (1963) Xenoliths in an orthogneiss body of the Nanao district, Taiwan. Acta Geologica Taiwanica, 10, 41–50.

Ho, G.R., Byrne, T.B., Lee, J.C., Mesalles, L., Lin, C.W., Lo, W., Chang, C.P., 2022, A new interpretation of the metamorphic core in the Taiwan orogen: A regional-scale, left-lateral shear zone that accommodated highly oblique plate convergence in the Plio-Pleistocene: Tectonophysics, v. 833, 229332, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2022.229332.

Ho, G.R., Chang, P.Y., Lo, W., Liu, C.M., and Song, S.R. (2014) New evidence of regional geological structures inferred from reprocessing and resistivity Data interpretation in the Chingshui-Sanshing-Hanchi area of southwestern Ilan County, NE Taiwan. Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 25, 491-504.

Ho, G.R. and Lo, W. (2015) Structural analysis in Shoufengsi area of Tananao Complex. Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 26, 557-569.

Hsieh, R.B.J.., Shellnutt, G.J., and Yeh, M.W. (2016) Age and tectonic setting of the East Taiwan Ophiolite: implications for the growth and development of the South China Sea. Geological Magazine, doi: 10.1017/S0016756816000054.

Hsu, W.H., Byrne, T.B. Ouimet, W., Lee, Y.H., Chen, Y.G., van Soest, M., and Hodges, K. (2016) Pleistocene onset of rapid, punctuated exhumation in the eastern Central Range of the Taiwan orogenic belt. Geology, 44, 719-722.

Huang, C.K. and Yeh, T.H. (1979) Mineralogy of the marginal parts of amphibolite bodies in the Tungao-Nanao area, eastern Taiwan. Acta Geologica Taiwanica, 20, 93-108.

Huang, C.Y. , Yuan, P.B. and Tsao, S.J. (2006) Temporal and spatial records of active arc-continent collision in Taiwan: A synthesis. Bulletin of Geological Society of American, 118, 274-288.

Huang, C.Y., Wu, W.Y., Chang, C.P., Tsao, S., Yuan, P.B., Lin, C.W. and Xia, K.Y. (1997) Evolution of the pre-collision accretionary prism in the arc-continent collision terrane of Taiwan. Tectonophysics, 281, 31-51.

Hwang, S.L., Shen, P., Yui, T.F. and Chu, H.T. (2001) TiO₂ nanoparticle trails in garnet: implications of inclusion pressure-induced microcracks and spontaneous metamorphic-reaction healing during exhumation. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 25, 451-460.

Hwang, S.L., Shen, P., Yui, T.F. and Chu, H.T. (2003) On the mechanism of resorption zoning in metamorphic garnet. Journal of Metamporphic Geology, 21, 761-769.

Hwang, S.L., Yui, T.F., Chu, H.T. and Shen, P. (2001) Submicron polyphase inclusions in garnet from the Tananao Metamorphic Complex, Taiwan: a key to unraveling otherwise unrecognized metamorphic events. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 19, 601-607.

Hwang, S.L., Yui, T.F., Chu, H.T. and Shen, P. (2002) Discovery of kyanite/staurolite in the Tananao Metamorphic Complex, Taiwan: a supplement, Western Pacific Earth Sciences, 2, 161-172.

Jahn, B.M. (1988) Pb-Pb dating of young marbles from Taiwan. Nature, 332, 429-432.

Jahn, B.M. and Cuvellier, H. (1994) Pb-Pb and U-Pb geochronology of carbonate rocks: an assessment. Chemical Geology, 115, 125-151.

Jahn, B.M., Chen, P.Y. and Yen, T.P. (1976) Rb-Sr ages of granitic rocks in southeastern China and their tectonic significance. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 86, 763-776.

Jahn, B.M. and Liou, J.G. (1977) Age and geochemical constraints of glaucophane schists of Taiwan. Memoir of the Geological Society of China, 2, 129-140.

Jahn, B.M., Liou, J.G. and Nagasawa, H. (1981) High-pressure metamorphic rocks of Taiwan: REE geochemistry, Rb-Sr ages and tectonic implications. Memoir of the Geological Society of China, 4, 497-520.

Jahn, B.M., Martineau, F. and Cornichet, J. (1984) Chronological significance of Sr isotopic compositions in the crystalline limestones of the Central Range, Taiwan. Memoir of the Geological Society of China, 6, 295-301.

Jahn, B.M., Martineau, F., Peucat, J.J. and Cornichet, J. (1986) Geochronology of the Tananao schist complex, Taiwan, and its regional tectonic significance. Tectonophysics, 125, 103-124.

Jahn, B.M., Zhou, X.H. and Li, J.L. (1990) Formation and tectonic evolution of Southeastern China and Taiwan: isotopic and geochemical constraints.  Tectonophysics, 183, 145-160.

Jahn, B.M., Chi, W.R. and Yui, T.F. (1992) A late Permian formation of Taiwan (marbles from Chia-Li well No. 1): Pb-Pb isochron and Sr isotopic evidence, and its regional geological significance. Journal of the Geological Society of China, 35, 193-218.

Jeng, R.C. and Huang, E. (1984a) Chemistry of garnets and metamorphic temperatures of the Yuantoushan gneiss and associated rocks in northeastern Taiwan. Memoir of the Geological Society of China, 6, 239-258.

Jeng, R.C. and Huang, E. (1984b) Yuantoushan gneiss body and associated dikes,  northeastern Taiwan. Special Publication of the Central Geological Survey, 3, 195-223. (in Chinese with English abstract)

Juan, V.C., Chow, T.J. and Lo, H.J. (1972) K-Ar ages of the metamorphic rocks of Taiwan. Acta Geologica Taiwanica, 15, 113-118.

Juang, W.S. and Bellon, H. (1986) Potassium-argon ages of the Tananao Schist in Taiwan. Memoir of the Geological Society of China, 7, 405-416.

Keyser, W., Tsai, C.H., Iizuka, Y., Oberhaensli, R. and Ernst, W.G. (2016) High-pressure metamorphism in the Chinshuichi area, Yuli belt, eastern Taiwan. Tectonophysics, 692, 191-202.

Kouketsu, Y., Tsai, C.H., Enami, M. (2019) Discovery of unusual metamorphic temperatures in the Yuli belt, eastern Taiwan: New interpretation of data by Raman carbonaceous material geothermometry. Geology, 47, 522–526. doi:10.1130/G45934.1.

Lan, C.Y. (1982) Mineral chemistry of Yuantoushan gneiss, Nanao area, I-Lan, Northeastern Taiwan. Proceedings of the Geological Society of China, 25, 38-52.

Lan, C.Y. (1993) Reviews of amphiboles in the metamorphic terranes of Taiwan. Special Publication of the Central Geological Survey, 7, 1-30.

Lan, C.Y., Jahn, B.M., Mertzman, S.A. and Wu, T.W. (1996) Subduction-related granitic rocks of Taiwan. Journal of Southeast Asian Earth Sciences, 14, 11-28.

Lan, C.Y., Lee, C.S., Yui, T.F., Chu, H.T. and Jahn, B.M. (2008) The Tectono-thermal events of Taiwan and their relationship with SE China. Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 19, 257-278.

Lan, C.Y., Lee T., Jahn B.M., Mertxman, S.A., Wu, T.W. and Yui, T. F. (1992) Metasomatism of amphibolite enclaves in Yuantoushan and Fanpaochienshan areas, northeastern Taiwan. Journal of the Geological Society of China, 35, 173-192.

Lan, C.Y., Lee, T., Jahn, B.M. and Yui, T.F. (1995) Taiwan as a witness of repeated mantle inputs-Sr-Nd-O isotopic geochemistry of Taiwan granitoids and metapelites. Chemical Geology, 124, 287-303.

Lan, C.Y., Lee, T. and Wang Lee, C. (1990) The Rb-Sr isotopic record in Taiwan gneisses and its tectonic implication. Tectonophysics, 183, 129-143.

Lan, C.Y. and Liou, J.G. (1981) Occurrence, petrology and tectonics of serpentinites and their associated rodingites in the Central Range, Taiwan. Memoir of the Geological Society of China, 4, 343-389.

Lan, C.Y. and Liou, J.G. (1984) Mineral chemistry of metamorphosed oceanic rocks in the Yuli belt of the Tananao Schist, Taiwan. Memoir of the Geological Society of China, 6, 153-178.

Lan, C.Y. and Wang Lee, C. (1992) The mineral chemistry of Fanpaochienshan gneiss and associated amphibolite, northeastern Taiwan. Journal of the Geological Society of China, 35, 45-76.

Lan, C.Y. and Wang Lee, C. (1993) Opaque minerals of Taiwan granitoids and their petrogenetic implications. Journal of the Geological Society of China, 36, 381-399.

Lee, Y.H., Byrne, T., Wang, W.H., Lo, W., Rau, R.J. and Lu, H.Y. (2015) Simultaneous mountain building in the Taiwan orogenic belt. Geology, 43, 451-454.

Lee, Y.H., Chen, C.C., Liu, T.K., Ho, H.C., Lu, H.Y. and Lo, W. (2006) Mountain building mechanisms in the Southern Central Range of the Taiwan Orogenic Belt — From accretionary wedge deformation to arc–continental collision. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 252, 413-422.

Li, Y.C., Chen, C.C. and Guey, W.D. (1986) Mineralogical study of melanite from Wanjung area, Hualien, Acta Geologica Taiwanica, 24, 149-164.

Li, Z.X., Li, X.H., Chung, S.L., Lo, C.H., Xu, X., and Li, W.X. (2012) Magmatic switch-on and switch-off along the South China continental margin since the Permian: Transition from an Andean-type to a Western Pacific-type plate boundary. Tectonophysics, 532-535, 271-290.

Lin, C.H. (2000) Thermal modeling of continental subduction and exhumation constrained by heat flow and seismicity in Taiwan, Tectonophysics, 324, 189-201.

Lin, C.H. (2002) Active continental subduction and crustal exhumation: the Taiwan orogeny. Terra Nova, 14, 281-287.

Lin, C.T., Harris, R., Sun, W.D. and Zhang, G.L. (2019) Geochemical and geochronological constraints on the origin and emplacement of the East Taiwan Ophiolite. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC007902

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Lin, C.W., Lin, W.H. and Kao, M.C. (1993) Explanatory Text of the Geologic Map of Taiwan (Scale 1: 50000), Sheet 22 Nanao, Central Geological Survey, MOEA, Taiwan, 35 pp. (in Chinese with English abstract)

Lin, M.L. (1985) Amphiboles in greenschist of the Yuli belt, Juisui area, eastern Taiwan. Acta Geologica Taiwanica, 23, 99-109.

Lin, M.L. (1999) Existence of the Chuochi transverse fault reconfirmed in southeastern Taiwan and its tectonic implication. Journal of the Geological Society of China, 42, 69-84.

Lin, M.L. (1999) Litho-stratigraphy and structural geology of Wanjung area, eastern Taiwan and their implications. Journal of the Geological Society of China, 42, 247-267.

Lin, M.L., Lin, C.K., and You, M.J. (2001) Vitrinite reflectance as a possible indicator of metamorphic grade and stratigraphic position of formations: a study of Oligocene metapelites in NE Taiwan. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 19, 223-232.

Lin, M.L., Yang, C.N. and Wang, Y. (1984) Petrotectonic study on the Yuli belt of the Tananao Schist in the Chinshuichi area, eastern Taiwan. Acta Geologica Taiwanica, 22, 151-188.

Lin, S.B. (1982) Serpentinites from the Yuli Belt, Tananao Schist, eastern Taiwan, Acta Geologica Taiwanica, 21, 104-121.

Liou, J.G. (1981) Petrology of metamorphosed oceanic rocks in the Central Range of Taiwan. Memoir of the Geological Society of China, 4, 291-342.

Liou, J.G. and Chen, P.Y. (1978) Chemistry and origin of chloritoid rocks from eastern Taiwan. Lithos, 11, 175-187.

Liou, J.G. and Ernst, W.G. (1984) Summary of Phanerozoic metamorphism in Taiwan. Memoir of the Geological Society of China, 6, 133-152.

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Liou, J.G., Ernst, W.G. and Moore, D.E. (1981) Geology and petrology and some polymetamorphosed amphibolites and associated rocks in northeastern Taiwan. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 92, 219-224.

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Liu, T.K. (1982) Tectonic implication of fission track ages from the Central Range, Taiwan. Proceedings of the Geological Society of China, 25, 22-37

Liu, T.K., Chen, Y.G. and Chen, W.S. and Jiang S.H. (2000) Rates of cooling and denudation of the Early Penglai Orogeny, Taiwan, as assessed by fission-track constraints. Tectonophysics, 320, 69-82.

Liu, T.K., Hsieh, S., Chen, Y.G. and Chen, W.S. (2001) Thermo-kinematic evolution of the Taiwan oblique-collision mountain belt as revealed by zircon fission track dating. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 186, 45-56. 

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Lo, C.H., Onstott, T.C. and Wang Lee, C. (1993) ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating of plutonic/metamorphic rocks from Chinmen Island off southeast China and its tectonic implications. Journal of the Geological Society of China, 36, 35-55.

Lo, C.H. and Wang Lee, C. (1981a) Mineral chemistry in some gneissic bodies, the Hoping-Chipan area, Hualien, eastern Taiwan. Proceedings of the Geological Society of China, 24, 40-55.

Lo, C.H. and Wang Lee, C. (1981b) Marble enclave in the Chipan granitic gneiss, Hualien, eastern Taiwan. Proceedings of the Geological Society of China, 24, 137-140.

Lo, C.H., Wang, C.M. and Yui, T.F. (1984) Olivine and chrome spinel in the ultramafic rocks from Fengtien area, Hualien, Taiwan, Acta Geologica Taiwanica, 22, 131-140.

Lo, C.H. and Yui, T.F (1996) ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating of high-pressure rocks in the Tananao basement complex, Taiwan. Journal of the Geological Society of China, 39, 13-30.

Lo, H.J. and Liu, T.K. (1984) A preliminary study of metamorphosed andesite in the Tananao Schist. Acta Geologica Taiwanica, 22, 189-195.

Lo, W.H., Tsai, C.H., Chung, S.L., Li, X.H., Li, Q.L., Lee, H.Y., Lee, C.Y., Iizuka, Y. (2022) Petrographic, geochemical, and geochronological characteristics of metaplagiogranites from a high-pressure mélange in the Yuli belt, eastern Taiwan: Evidence for an early Miocene igneous precursor. Lithos, 428-429C, 106829. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2022.106829.

Lo, Y.C., Chen, C.T., Lo, C.H., and Chung, S.L. (2019) Ages of ophiolitic rocks along plate suture in Taiwan orogen: Fate of the South China Sea from subduction to collision. Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 31, 383-402. doi: 10.3319/TAO.2019.06.19.01

Lu, C.Y. (1986) The origin of the lithic blocks in the Tienhsiang formation between Lo-Shao and Tsemuchiao, eastern Taiwan. Proceedings of the Geological Society of China, 29, 87-97.

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Lu, C.Y., Chang, K.J., Malavieille, J., Chan,, Y.C., Chang, C.P. and Lee, J.C. (2001) Structural Evolution of the Southeastern Central Range, Taiwan. Western Pacific Earth Sciences, 1, 213-226.

Lu, C.Y. and Wang Lee, C. (1986) The sheath folds in the Tananao Group between Tienshiang and Tailuko, east-west cross-island highway, Taiwan. Tectonophysics, 125, 125-131.

Malavieille, J. (2010) Impact of erosion, sedimentation, and structural heritage on the structure and kinematics of orogenic wedges: Analog models and case studies. GSA Today, 20, 4-10.

Malavieille, J. Dominguez, Lu, C.Y., Chen, C.T., and Konstantinovskaya, E. (2021) Deformation partitioning in mountain belts: insights from analogue modelling experiments and the Taiwan collisional orogen. Geological Magazine, 158, 84-103.

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