Pumice layers in marine terraces: implications for tectonic uplift rates on the east and northeast coasts of Taiwan over the last hundreds of years

Song, Sheng-Rong; Liu, Chia-Mei; Chen, Chang-Hwa; Lo, Wei

doi:10.1016/s1040-6182(03)00098-3

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“…Consistent with the method of Yang et al (1996), the analyses were performed on glass beads made from lithium tetraborate flux with a flux to sample ratio of 10:1. The analytical precision and accuracy for each of the elements are shown in Table 2 (Lee et al, 1997;Song et al, 2004).…”

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Mineralogical and geochemical changes in the sediments of the Okhotsk Sea during deglacial periods in the past 500 kyrs

Liu

Song

Lee

et al. 2006

Global and Planetary Change

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Mineralogical and geochemical changes in the sediments of the Okhotsk Sea during deglacial periods in the past 500 kyrs

Liu

Song

Lee

et al. 2006

Global and Planetary Change

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“…The occurrence of such pumice layers in Taiwan is already known, however, dated events of pumice enrichment in coastal environments comprise only the last few hundreds of years. Because of the lack of Holocene volcanism in Taiwan and the geochemical analysis of analysed pumice from two sites, Song et al (2004) suggested that the origin of such pumice layers could be the arc volcanism of Luzon and the Philippines. From the source areas, the pumice is then transported by the Kuroshio current to areas in the north, including Taiwan.…”

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The Holocene paleo-environmental history of the Gangkou River estuary, Hengchun Peninsula, Taiwan

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Ho²,

Clemenz³

et al. 2018

Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci.

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The Taiwan coastal areas are facing predicted sea-level rise effects in the global climate change context. Better understanding of the mechanisms and forcing factors driving the geomorphological evolution of Taiwan's coastline is essential. We highlight the potential of small river estuaries as archives of coastal evolution and provide a paleo-environmental reconstruction of the Gangkou River estuary based on results from a combined methodological approach using geomorphological, sedimentological, and geochronological analyses. A consistent chronology was established by combining Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating, as well as radiocarbon dating techniques. A distinct beach-rock layer allowed firm correlation of six investigated coastal profiles. Eustatic sea level change was identified as the primary coastal and estuarine landscape development forcing factor in the study area. Tectonic forcing could also be detected from the investigated sites, but has to be regarded as a subordinate secondary forcing factor. The Gangkou River estuary developed in the early Holocene at about 8 ka and was fully developed by the time the Holocene sea-level maximum was reached. With the sea-level dropping until modern times, estuarine zone relocation and a transition to terrestrial processes was initiated, leading to development of the current coastal dune system since about 2.5 ka. Major dune building phases correlate with the climate change associated with the Little Ice Age (LIA) event and stabilised towards recent times, which is in accordance with regional and over-regional coastal Aeolian records in Taiwan.

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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.…”

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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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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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Pumice layers in marine terraces: implications for tectonic uplift rates on the east and northeast coasts of Taiwan over the last hundreds of years

Cited by 6 publications

References 22 publications

Mineralogical and geochemical changes in the sediments of the Okhotsk Sea during deglacial periods in the past 500 kyrs

Mineralogical and geochemical changes in the sediments of the Okhotsk Sea during deglacial periods in the past 500 kyrs

The Holocene paleo-environmental history of the Gangkou River estuary, Hengchun Peninsula, Taiwan

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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