The plate tectonic history of the Junction Region, which separated the Panthalassa and
Tethys realms, is notoriously challenging to reconstruct. The region has been dominated by …

The India-Eurasia collision alone set up a series of chain reactions and caused the
formation and destruction of sedimentary basins within the domain of the collision belt …

The active collision between the Luzon arc and the Asian continent in the Taiwan area is
investigated in terms of plate kinematics and geological records. Regarding plate …

Geochemical parameters obtained from the analysis of sediments and sedimentary rocks
are widely used to infer weathering and paleo-weathering conditions in source areas …

Crystallization (dacite) and interaction (dacite–peridotite) experiments have been performed
on the 1991 Pinatubo dacite (Luzon Island, Philippines) to constrain its petrogenesis. In the …

15 Ma ago, a major plate reorganization occurred in East Asia. Seafloor spreading ceased
in the South China Sea, Japan Sea, Taiwan Sea, Sulu Sea, and Shikoku and Parece Vela …

Recent tomographic results are used to trace the South China Sea and Philippine Sea
subducting slabs, south and northeast of Taiwan along the Manila and Ryukyu trenches …

Marine observations offshore of Taiwan indicate intense deformation of the Luzon arc-
forearc complex, with episodic eastward migration of the active deformation front across the …

Mindanao, the largest island in the southern Philippine archipelago, is a composite of at
least two terranes; one with Eurasian affinity (western Mindanao) and the other belonging to …

The Huatung Basin is a small oceanic basin located east of Taiwan. Previous age estimates
from magnetic lineation studies indicated an Eocene age for the basin, and formation from …