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Fold-and-thrust belt
(Passive Asian continental margin) 25 Ryukyu
Pleistocene-Holocene foreland TAIWAN Arc
Miocene-Pleistocene shallow sediments Hsingchuang Fault Chuchih Fault Ryukyu Tr. 25 N
Paleogene shallow sediments Okinawa Luzon Arc
Accretionary prism Trough 20 Manila Trench
(Deep marine slope-trench sequences) Lishan Fault
Miocene slate and turbidites
Underthrust Eurasian continent Suao LUZON 125
Eocene sediments
Pre-Cenozoic Metamorphic Hsuehshan Range Arc Ryukyu Arc
basement Foothills collapse/
Accreted Luzon arc-forearc subduction
Accreted North Luzon
Trough and volcanic arc Central Range 24 N
Coastal plain Hoping-Nanao-Forearc Basin
Western Valley Ryukyu Trench
Yaeyama Ridge

Advanced
TAIWAN Longitudinal Coastal Range arc-continent collision
Taiwan ACCRETIONARY
Strait PRISM 23 N
Laonung Fault Lutao 82 mm 1 a Philippine
Sea

Hengchun Peninsula Ridge ARC

Kaoping Lanhsu
Initial
Slope (arc-prism boundary) arc-continent 22 N
collision
syn-collision accretionary prism Huatung
(fold and thrust belt)
Hengchun Ridge LUZON

(accretionary prism) Intra-oceanic 21 N
subduction

South North Luzon Trough (forearc basin) Batan
Manila Trench
China
Sea NORTH

20 N
119 E 120 E 121 E 122 E

Figure 10.29 Tectonic map of the Taiwan arc–continent collision (images provided by C.-Y. Huang and modified from
Huang C.-Y. et al., 2000, with permission from Elsevier).