| Session Details | |
| Section | SE - Solid Earth Sciences |
| Session Title | TAIGER and Orogenic Processes |
| Main Convener | Prof. Chao-Shing Lee (National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan) |
| Co-convener(s) | Prof. Chien-Ying Wang (NCU, Taiwan) Dr. Bor-Shouh Huang (Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Prof. Shu-Kun Hsu (National Central University, Taiwan) Prof. Shu-Kun Hsu (National Central University, Taiwan) Prof. Char-Shine Liu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Dr. K. Mcintosh (The University Of Texas at Austin, United States) Dr. D. Okaya (University Of South California, United States) Prof. F. Wu (SUNY Binghamton, Department of Geological Sciences, United States) Dr. Jian Lin (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, United States) Dr. Jian Lin (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, United States) Dr. Jiabiao Li (The second Institute of Oceanography, China) Dr. Jiabiao Li (The second Institute of Oceanography, China) |
| Session Description | The Joint US-Taiwan TAIGER project has conducted multi-disciplinary, land and marine geophysical imaging experiments successfully from 2006-2009. The results provide constraints for tectonic modeling of Taiwan, one of the youngest and most active orogenies in the world. Coupled with recent geological, geodetic and other geophysical research advances in Taiwan, the TAIGER results contribute constraints for answers to fundamental questions regarding the arc-continent collision that created Taiwan and orogenic processes as a whole. In this special session we would like to solicit papers on the analysis of new results and their interpretations. At the same time, for the understanding of Taiwan and the collision processes as well as the comparisons to other well-studied orogenies are important. Thus, we would like to solicit papers on the active and inactive mountains of East Asia and elsewhere based on structural geology, orogeny-related metamorphism, thermo-chronology, surficial processes, geophysical imaging and geodynamic modeling. Associated with his session will be a half-day sea cruise to visit the active volcano and seismic zone, the Turtle Island, offshore of NE Taiwan. Suggested Conveners: C.S. Lee Professor National Taiwan Ocean University leecs@mail.ntou.edu.tw +886-2-2463-1811 Co- Conveners: C.Y. Wang Professor National Central University wangcy@cc.ncu.edu.tw B.S. Huang Professor Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica hwbs@earth.sinica.edu.tw S.K. Hsu Professor National Central University hsu@ncu.edu.tw C.S. Liu Professor National Taiwan University csliu@ntu.edu.tw K. McIntosh Professor The University Of Texas at Austin kirk@utig.ig.utexas.edu D. Okaya Professor University Of South California okaya@usc.edu F. Wu Professor SUNY Binghamton, Department of Geological Sciences francis@binghamton.edu |