Communications Earth & Environment (Apr 2022)

Extremely rapid up-and-down motions of island arc crust during arc-continent collision

  • Larry Syu-Heng Lai,
  • Rebecca J. Dorsey,
  • Chorng-Shern Horng,
  • Wen-Rong Chi,
  • Kai-Shuan Shea,
  • Jiun-Yee Yen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00429-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Uplift and subsidence in island arcs during arc-continent collision may reach rates of over 14 mm per year, substantially faster than previously thought, according to stratigraphic analyses and sediment backstripping in Taiwan’s Coastal Range