Journal Articles (Chin-Ho Tsai)

Dewangga, D.D., Tsai, C.H., Wang, K.L., Lee, H.Y., Kourim, F., Chang, W.Y. (2026) Geochemical characteristics of metaserpentinites from the Yuli belt, eastern Taiwan: implications for protolith affinities and subduction-related metasomatism. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2026.107331 

Dewangga, D.D., Tsai, C.H., Lee, H.Y., Iizuka, Y., Chung, S.L., Chang, W.Y. (2025) Element redistribution along the subduction interface: metasomatism between pelitic schist and ophiolitic serpentinite in the Yuli belt, eastern Taiwan from the Yuli belt. Lithos, 516-517, 108280. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2025.108280

Lo, W.H., Tsai, C.H., Baziotis, I., Chung, S.L., Liu, C., Iizuka, Y., Lee, H.Y. (2025) Effects of bulk-rock chemistry on paragonite stability in high-pressure epidote-amphibolites from the Yuli metamorphic belt, Taiwan. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 180, article number 34 (in press). doi:10.1007/s00410-025-02228-2

Dewangga, D.D., Tsai, C.H.*, Iizuka, Y., Sakaguchi, I.T., Kouketsu, Y., Chung, S.L., Lee, C.Y., Chang, W.Y., Chen, H.F. (2025) Origin and metamorphism of ophiolitic serpentinites from the Yuli belt, eastern Taiwan: new findings and tectonic implications. International Geology Review, 67, 933-949. doi:10.1080/00206814.2024.2415088 (*corresponding author)

Byrne, T., Chojnacki, M., Lewis, J., Lee, J.C., Ho, G.R., Yeh, E.C., Lee, H.Y., Tsai, C.H., Evans, M., Webb, L. (2024) Tectonic exhumation of a metamorphic core in an arc-continent collision during oblique convergence, Taiwan. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 11, 23. doi:10.1186/s40645-024-00627-w

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 (*corresponding author)

Zhang, Y., Tsai, C.H., Froitzheim, N., Ustaszewski, K. (2020) The Yuli Belt in Taiwan: Part of the suture zone separating Eurasian and Philippine Sea plates. Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 31, 415–435. doi:10.3319/TAO.2020.06.28.01

Rehman, H.U., Tsujimori, T., Tsai, C.H., Chung, S.L (2020) Editorial of the special issue “Subduction and continental collision processes: Petrologic, geochemical and structural perspectives”, Lithos, 360-361, in press. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105430

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

Baziotis, I., Tsai, C.H.*, Ernst, W.G., Jahn, B.M., 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. (*corresponding author)

Wang, Y., Tsai, C.H., Zhou, L., Qiu, Y., Sun, G. (2017) Reassessment of the Mesozoic meta-sedimentary rocks and tectonic setting of Taiwan and the adjacent continental margin of eastern Asia. Geological Magazine, 154, 1127–1154.

Keyser, W., Tsai, C.H.*, Iizuka, Y., Oberhaensli, R., Ernst, W.G. (2016) High-pressure metamorphism in the Chinshuichi area, Yuli belt, eastern Taiwan. Tectonophysics, 692, 191–202. 10.1016/j.tecto.2015.09.012. (*corresponding author)

Tsai, C.H., Iizuka, Y., Ernst, W.G. (2013) Diverse mineral compositions, textures, and metamorphic P-T conditions of the glaucophane-bearing rocks in the Tamayen mélange, Yuli belt, eastern Taiwan. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 63, 218–233. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2012.09.019

Yui, T.F., Ogasawara, Y., Zhang, L., Tsai, C.H. (2013) Editorial: HP and UHP metamorphic belts in Asia. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 63, 1–4. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2013.01.001

Rehman, H.U., Tsujimori, T., Tsai, C.-H. (2012) Minerals, rocks, and mountains: Linking petrology, geochemistry, and geochronology. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 59, 1–2. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2012.07.015

Osozawa, S., Tsai, C.H., Wakabayashi, J. (2012) Folding of granite and Cretaceous exhumation associated with regional-scale flexural slip folding and ridge subduction, Kitakami zone, northeast Japan. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 59, 85–98. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2012.05.023

Tsai, C.H., Yui, T.F., Chen, W.S., Chung, S.L., (2012) Comment on ‘Geochronologic Evidence for a Cold Arc-Continent Collision: The Taiwan Orogeny’ by R.P. Wintsch, H.-J. Yang, X.-H. Li, K.-A. Tung [Lithos 125 (2011) 236–248], Lithos, 132-133, 193–195. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2011.09.002.

Boullier, A.-M., Yeh, E.C., Boutareaud, S., Song, S.R., & Tsai, C.H., (2009) Micro-scale anatomy of the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake fault zone. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 10, Q03016, doi:10.1029/2008GC002252.

Lin, L.H., Wang, P.L., Lo, C.H., Tsai, C.H. and Jahn, B.M. (2005) 40Ar-39Ar thermochronological constraints on the exhumation of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks in the Sulu terrane of eastern China, International Geology Review, 47, 872–886.

Tsai, C.H., Lo, C.H., Liou, J.G.& Jahn, B.M. (2000) Evidence against subduction- related magmatism for the Jiaoziyan Gabbro, northern Dabie Shan, China, Geology, 28, 943–946.

Tsai, C.H. & Liou, J.G. (2000) Eclogite facies relics and inferred ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism in the North Dabie Complex, central-eastern China, American Mineralogist, 85, 1–8.

Tsai, C.H., Liou, J.G. & Ernst, W.G. (2000) Petrological characterization and tectonic significance of retrogressed garnet peridotites, Raobazhai area, North Dabie Complex, east-central China, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 18, 181–192.

Jahn, B.M., Wu, F., Lo, C.H. & Tsai, C.H. (1999) Crust-mantle interaction caused by deep subduction of the continental crust: evidence from post-collisional mafic-ultramafic intrusions of the Northern Dabie Complex, Chemical Geology, 157, 119–146.

Liou, Y.S., Lo, C.H., Tsai, C.H., Wang, P.L. & Chen, C.H. (1999) Thermochronological study of the Dabie ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic terrane, east-central-China, Journal of the Geological Society of China, 42, 159–188.

Liou, Y.S., Lo, C.H., Tsai, C.H., Chung, S.L., Qiu, J. & Li, X. (1999) 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of volcanics and intrusives in the Dabie Shan and Su-Lu terranes, eastern China, and their regional implications, Journal of the Geological Society of China, 42, 493–520.

Zhang, R.Y., Liou, J.G. & Tsai, C.H. (1996) Petrogenesis of a high-temperature metamorphic terrane: a new tectonic interpretation for the north Dabieshan, central China, Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 14, 319–333.  

Conference Abstracts

Sakaguchi, I.T., Kouketsu, Y., Tsai, C.H., Dewangga, D.D., Michibayashi, K.  (2020) The microstructure and composition of picrolitic antigorite veins in serpentinites from the high-P metamorphic Yuli belt in eastern Taiwan. JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting Abstracts, SMP38-P17.

Zhang, Y., Tsai, C.H., Froitzheim, N., Ustaszewski, K. (2020) Yuli Belt in the eastern Taiwan orogen: a part of suture zone separating Eurasian and Philippine Sea plates. EGU General Assembly 2020, EGU2020-540, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-540, 2019.

Tsai, C.H., Yeh, C.Y., Kouketsu, Y. (2019) New P-T constraints on metasedimentary rocks in the Yuli belt, eastern Taiwan: evidence of subduction metamorphism and implications for blueschist Exhumation. AGU Meeting Abstracts, T14A-06.

Tsai, C.H., Yeh, C.Y. Dewangga, D.D., Kouketsu, Y. (2019) New petrologic indications of subduction metamorphism in the Yuli belt, eastern Taiwan. JpGU Meeting Abstracts, SMP-29-09.

Tsai, C.H., Yeh, C.Y., Kouketsu, Y., Enami, M. (2019) Metamorphic temperature variation across the Yuli belt: a clue about exhumation of high-pressure rocks? JpGU Meeting Abstracts, SIT-26-05.

Kouketsu, Y., Tsai, C.H., Enami, M. (2018) Wide variety of crystallinity of carbonaceous materials in metasedimentary schists in the Yuli belt, eastern Taiwan. JpGU Meeting Abstracts, SMP-34-01.

Tsai, C.H. (2018) New evidence of high-pressure metamorphism in the Wanjung tectonic block, eastern Taiwan: petrologic characterization and tectonic implications, JpGU Meeting Abstracts, SMP-34-02.

Tsai, C.H., Liu C, Lo, W.H. (2017) Metamorphosed tectonic blocks in the Yuli belt, eastern Taiwan: a petrological perspective, JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting Abstracts, SMP-41-03.

Tsai, C.H., Liu, C., Webb, L. and Keyser, W. (2016) New P-T and Geochronological Constraints on High-Pressure Garnet-Bearing Paragonite-Epidote Amphibolite in the Yuli Belt, Eastern Taiwan, Goldschmidt2016 Conference, Abstract 07b-114.

Liou, J.G., Ogasawara, Y., Igarashi, M. and Tsai, C.H. (2015) Contamination of diamonds in UHP metamorphic rocks - an example from the Dabie Terrane, China. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 47, No. 7, p.169.

Tsai, C.H. (2015) Whole-rock geochemical characterization of high-pressure mélanges in the Yuli belt, eastern Taiwan. Goldschmidt2015 Conference Abstracts, 3177.

Tsai, C.H., Keyser, W., Lan, C.H. (2014) Reinterpreting high-pressure tectonic blocks in the Yuli belt of Taiwan. GSA Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Paper No. 201-11.

Keyser,W., Tsai, C.H. Iizuka, Y. (2014) Not so exotic blocks: regional insights from high-pressure rocks in the Chinshuichi area, Yuli belt, eastern Taiwan。中華民國地質學會103年年會暨學術研討會論文摘要，編號271,356頁 .

Keyser, W., Tsai, C.H., Iizuka, Y. (2013) Contrasting compositional trends of amphiboles in the Chinshuichi area, Yuli belt, eastern Taiwan: a tectonic melange? GSA Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 45, No. 7, p 601.

Tsai, C.H., Lan, C.H. (2013) Amphibole compositions and tectonic implications of the Wanjung serpentinite complex, Yuli belt, eastern Taiwan. GSA Cordilleran Section - 109th Annual Meeting, California, USA, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 45, No. 6, p.21.

Osozawa, S., Tsai, C.H., Wakabayashi, J. (2013) Folding of Kitakami granite and exhumation associated with regional-scale flexural slip folding and ridge subduction. Japan Geoscience Union Meeting, Japan, abstract SCG07-01.