Holocene tectonic uplift on the Hua-tung coast, eastern Taiwan

Hsieh, Meng-Long; Liew, Ping-Mei; Hsu, Min-Hsiang

doi:10.1016/s1040-6182(03)00096-x

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“…Zong, 2004) compared to Taiwan (Liew et al, 1990(Liew et al, , 1993Liew and Hsieh, 2000;Chen andLiu, 1996, 2000;Chen et al, 2004;Hsieh et al, 2004;Song et al, 2004;Yamaguchi and Ota, 2004), Hong Kong (Owen, 1995;Davis, 1999Davis, , 2000Yim, 1999;Fyfe et al, 2000, Yim and Huang, 2002Baker et al, 2003;) or South Korea (Kim and Lee, 2006). For the southern Fujian province, Xie et al (1985) stated that sea level fluctuated from 8000 to 7000 yr B.P.…”

Section: Holocene Rslmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coastal Quaternary morphologies on the northern coast of the South China Sea, China, and their implications for current tectonic models: A review and preliminary study

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Marine terraces, tidal notches and sediments along a 1200-km-long stretch of the northern coast of the South China Sea passive margin were studied and divided into five areas with varying tectonic characters. Up to three marine terraces occur, that have elevations reaching up to 60 m above mean sea level (amsl), and two marine notches occur up to 11 m amsl. Chronology of the morphologies and deposits was obtained mainly by comparison with Quaternary sea levels derived from the oxygen isotope curve. However, prior to the last interglacial highstand (MIS 5e, c. 125 ka), evidence of history of events is less well-constrained, leading to less precision on sea-level positions prior to MIS 5e. Using the morphological features of MIS 5e as a marker, mean coastal uplift rates in the last c.125 ka range from 0.07 mm/yr to 0.18 mm/yr. The pattern of deformations is slightly higher than those observed on passive margin coasts in other parts of the world. The cause of uplift of the south China coastline is not clear, but may relate to the Himalayan collision zone or any other large-scale phenomena.

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Section: Holocene Rslmentioning

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Coastal Quaternary morphologies on the northern coast of the South China Sea, China, and their implications for current tectonic models: A review and preliminary study

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“…How are the motions of active faults expressed on August 27, 2013 gsabulletin.gsapubs.org Downloaded from topographically along the coast? This paper pre sents the results of our study of Holocene marine terraces, an approach that has been shown to be productive on other tectonically active margins (Chen and Liu, 2000;Hsieh et al, 2004;Bookhagen et al, 2006;Litchfi eld et al, 2010;Berryman et al, 2011).…”

Section: Holocene Marine Terracesmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…It is diffi cult to fi nd analogous places on the planet. While parts of Taiwan (Hsieh et al, 2004), Japan (Tamura et al, 2010), northern California (Merritts, 1996), and elsewhere are complex collisional, triple-junction, and multi plate locations, they have a smaller variety of geodynamic regimes over areas of the same spatial scale as the Kamchatsky Peninsula (~100 km length and 50 km width). The peninsula is situated at the northern terminus of the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone and where the Komandorsky Island block, moving parallel to the Aleutian trench, impinges on the Kamchatka mainland (Seliverstov, 1998(Seliverstov, , 2009.…”

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“…Age control on Holocene marine terraces has been derived primarily from radiocarbon dating of associated faunal or plant material; a few studies have used optically stimulated luminescence dating (OSL; e.g., Bookhagen et al, 2006;Pfl anz et al, 2013). The largest body of work on Holocene marine terraces has been carried out in the western Pacifi c (review by Ota and Yamaguchi, 2004), in particular in Japan (e.g., Sugihara et al, 2003;Ota and Yamaguchi, 2004;Tamura et al, 2010), Taiwan (e.g., Yamaguchi and Ota, 2002;Hsieh et al, 2004), New Zealand (Wilson et al, 2006;Berryman et al, 2011), and Papua New Guinea (e.g., Chappell et al, 1998). Other sites of study include Chile (Nelson and Manley, 1992;Bookhagen et al, 2006), the Mendocino triple junction (Merritts, 1996), and Indonesia (VitaFinzi and Situmorang, 1989;Merritts et al, 1998;Briggs et al, 2008).…”

Section: Holocene Marine Terracesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A nexus of plate interaction: Vertical deformation of Holocene wave-built terraces on the Kamchatsky Peninsula (Kamchatka, Russia)

Pinegina¹,

Bourgeois²,

Kravchunovskaya³

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Geological Society of America Bulletin

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International audienceKamchatsky Peninsula lies within a complex meeting place of tectonic plates, in particular, the orthogonal interaction of the west-moving Komandorsky Island block with mainland Kamchatka. Examining the Holocene history of vertical deformation of marine wave-built terraces along the peninsular coast, we differentiated tectonic blocks undergoing uplift and tilting separated by zones of stable or subsided shorelines. We analyzed ∼200 excavations along >30 coastal profiles and quantified vertical deformation on single profiles as well as along the coast using paleoshorelines dated with marker tephras. For the past ∼2000 yr, the average rates of vertical deformation range from about -1 to +7 mm/yr. Uplift patterns are similar to those detected from historical leveling and from mapping of the stage 5e Quaternary marine terrace (ca. 120 ka). Average vertical deformation in the Holocene is highest for the shortest studied time period, from ca. A.D. 250 to 600, and it is several times faster than rates for marine oxygen isotope stage (MIS) 5e terraces. Vertical displacements observed along the coast are most likely coseismic and probably have included subsidence as well as uplift events. Because subsidence is generally associated with erosion, almost surely more prehistoric large earthquakes occurred than are recorded as topographic steps in these terraces. We suggest that the distribution of coastal uplift and subsidence observed along the Kamchatsky Peninsula coastline is qualitatively explained by the squeezing of the Kamchatsky Peninsula block between the Bering and Okhotsk plates, and the Komandorsky Island block

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“…Kelsey and Bockheim, 1994;Burbank and Anderson, 2001). Marine terraces have also been used to quantify the differential rock uplift due to faulting (Kelsey and Bockheim, 1994;Hsieh et al, 2004;Marquardt et al, 2004) and fold growth (Grant et al, 1999). It is striking that previous studies have mainly concentrated on Late Pleistocene uplift processes, while studies that use marine terraces to tackle longer-term processes of coastal uplift are scarce (e.g.…”

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Origin, structure and exposure history of a wave-cut platform more than 1 Ma in age at the coast of northern Spain: A multiple cosmogenic nuclide approach

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Holocene tectonic uplift on the Hua-tung coast, eastern Taiwan

Cited by 38 publications

References 22 publications

Coastal Quaternary morphologies on the northern coast of the South China Sea, China, and their implications for current tectonic models: A review and preliminary study

Coastal Quaternary morphologies on the northern coast of the South China Sea, China, and their implications for current tectonic models: A review and preliminary study

A nexus of plate interaction: Vertical deformation of Holocene wave-built terraces on the Kamchatsky Peninsula (Kamchatka, Russia)

Origin, structure and exposure history of a wave-cut platform more than 1 Ma in age at the coast of northern Spain: A multiple cosmogenic nuclide approach

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