Invited Talk
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Speaker: 黃梓殷
國立台灣大學地質科學系

Title: 噪訊法與台灣造山帶地殼構造 (in Chinese)
Crustal Structure of Taiwan Orogen Constrained by Seismic Ambient Noises

Time: 11:00 - 12:00, Friday, 25, September, 2015
Location: Room 213, Department of Geosciences, NTU

Abstract:
The underthrusting of continental crust during mountain building is an issue of debate for orogens at convergent continental margins. We report three-dimensional seismic anisotropic tomography of Taiwan that shows a nearly 90° rotation of anisotropic fabrics across a 10- to 20-kilometer depth, consistent with the presence of two layers of deformation. The upper crust is dominated by collision-related compressional deformation, whereas the lower crust of Taiwan, mostly the crust of the subducted Eurasian plate, is dominated by convergence-parallel shear deformation. We interpret this lower crustal shearing as driven by the continuous sinking of the Eurasian mantle lithosphere when the surface of the subducted plate is coupled with the orogen. The two-layer deformation clearly defines the role of subduction in the formation of the Taiwan mountain belt.