Tomographic imaging of the convergent zone in Eastern Taiwan — A subducting forearc sliver revealed?

Tectonic erosion and the removal of forearc lithosphere during arc-continent collision: Evidence from recent earthquake sequences and tomography results in eastern Taiwan

“…A similar geometry has been proposed recently based upon another tomographic analysis (Cheng, 2009). However, the 2006 Taitung earthquake series illustrated the significance of the east-vergent Central Range fault system in the tectonic evolution of Taiwan, which would be difficult to incorporate into a single eastward underthrusting geometry.…”

Mantle structure and tectonic history of SE Asia

“…Lallemand et al (2001), Lin et al (2004), Cheng (2009), Cheng et al (2012, and Huang et al (2014) are among many authors who have discussed tomography and complexities of reconstructions north of the Philippines. For the Philippines themselves, the history of the Philippine Sea plate is relevant, and modification of the reconstructions have been suggested above in the light of tomographic images that show the length of subducted Molucca Sea slabs.…”

Tomography of the southern Taiwan subduction zone and possible emplacement of crustal rocks into the forearc mantle

“…In order to refine the hypocenter and determine a more reliable one-dimensional (1-D) velocity model, the VELEST program (Kissling et al, 1994) was employed. The initial 1-D velocity model is modified from (Cheng, 2004;McIntosh et al, 2005;Liao et al, 2008;Cheng, 2009).…”