Taiwan Geodynamics Experiment
NSF Continental Dynamics

 

TAIGER is an international, multi-disciplinary approach to studying mountain building and arc-collision in Taiwan. Scientists from USA, Taiwan, Japan, and France have worked together to collect geophysical observations and carry out interpretive analyses.

This project integrates results from passive broadband seismology (land and marine OBS), controlled-source land explosion profiling, marine MCS and OBS, surround-island onshore-offshore profiling, magnetotellurics, petrophysical sampling for physical properties and geodynamical modeling methods.

 

  • Okaya, D., N.I. Christensen, Z. Ross, and F. Wu., 2016, Terrane-controlled crustal shear wave splitting in Taiwan, Geophys. Res. Letts., 43, doi:10.1002/2015GL066446.
  • Wu, F.T., Z. Ross, D. Okaya, Y. Ben-Zion, C.-Y. Wang, H. Kuo-Chen and W.-T. Liang, 2016, Dense network, intense seismicity and tectonics of Taiwan, Tectonophysics, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2016.04.025.
  • Kuo, Y.-W., C.-Y. Wang, H. Kuo-Chen, X. Jin, H.-T. Cai, J.-Y. Lin, F.T. Wu, H.-Y. Yen, B.-S. Huang, W.-T. Liang, D. Okaya, and L. Brown, 2016, Crustal structures from Wuyi-Yunkai orogen to the Taiwan orogen: the onshore-offshore wide-angle seismic experiment of TAIGER and ATSEE projects, Tectonophysics, 692, 164-180, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2015.09.014.
  • Van Avendonk, H J.A., K.D. McIntosh, H. Kuo-Chen, L.L. Lavier, D.A. Okaya, F.T. Wu, C.-Y. Wang, C.-S. Lee, and C.-S. Liu, 2016, A lithospheric seismic profile across northern Taiwan, from arc-continental collision to extension, Geophys. J. Int., 204, 331-346, doi:10.1093/gji/ggv468.
  • Van Avendonk, H.J.A., H. Kuo-Chen, K.D. McIntosh, L.L. Lavier, D.A. Okaya, F.T. Wu, C.Y. Wang, C.S. Lee, and C.S. Liu, 2014, Deep crustal structure of an arc-continent collision: constraints from seismic travel times in central Taiwan and the Philippine Sea, J. Geophys. Res., 119, 8397-8416, doi:10.1002/2014JB011327.
  • Huang, B.S., C.Y. Chien, D. Okaya, S.-J. Lee, Y.C. Lai, F.T. Wu, W.-T. Liang, and W.-G. Huang, 2013, Multiple diving waves and high-velocity gradients in the western Taiwan Coastal Plain – an investigation based on the TAIGER experiment, Bull. Seis. Soc. Amer., 103, 925-935, doi:10.1785/0120110047.
  • Okaya, D., F. Wu., C.-Y. Wang, H.-Y. Yen, B.-S. Huang, L. Brown, and W.-T. Liang, 2009, Joint passive-controlled source seismic experiment across Taiwan, EOS, 90, 289-290.
  • Kuo-Chen, H., F.T. Wu, D. Okaya, B. Huang, and W. Liang, 2009, SKS/SKKS splitting and Taiwan orogeny, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L12303, doi:10.1029/2009GL038148.
  • Wu., F., F. Davey, and D. Okaya, 2007, Taiwan and South Island, New Zealand – a comparison of continental collisional orogenies, in Okaya, D., Stern, T., and Davey, F., A continental plate boundary: tectonics of South Island, New Zealand, AGU Geophysical Monograph 175, 331-348.