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Publications - SCI journal papers


Chen, Chih-Tung, Jyr-Ching Hu, Chia-Yu Lu, Jian-Cheng Lee, Yu-Chang Chan, 2007, Thirty-year land elevation change from subsidence to uplift following the termination of groundwater pumping and its geological implications in the Metropolitan Taipei Basin, Northern Taiwan, Engineering Geology 95, 30-47. (SCI, EI) [Link] [pdf]


Chen, Chih-Tung, Jian-Cheng Lee, Yu-Chang Chan, Chia-Yu Lu, 2010, Growth normal faulting at the western edge of the Metropolitan Taipei Basin since the Last Glacial Maximum, Northern Taiwan, Terrestrial, Atmospheric, and Oceanic Sciences 21-3, 409-428. (SCI) [Link] [pdf]


Chen, Chih-Tung, Yu-Chang Chan, Chia-Yu Lu, Martine Simoes, Olivier Beyssac, 2011, Nappe structure revealed by thermal constraints in the Taiwan metamorphic belt, Terra Nova 23, 85-91. (SCI) [Link] [pdf]


Yui, Tzen-Fu, Tadashi Usuki, Chun-Yen Chen, Akizumi Ishida, Yuji Sano, Kenshi Suga, Yoshiyuki Iizuka, Chih-Tung Chen, 2014, Dating thin zircon rims by NanoSIMS: the Fengtien nephrite (Taiwan) is the youngest jade on Earth, International Geology Review 56-16, 1932-1944. (SCI) [Link] [pdf]


Chen, Chih-Tung, Jian-Cheng Lee, Yu-Chang Chan, Chia-Yu Lu, Louis Suh-Yui Teng, 2014, Elucidating the geometry of the active Shanchiao Fault in the Taipei metropolis, northern Taiwan, and the reactivation relationship with preexisting orogen structures, Tectonics 33-12, 2400-2418, doi:10.1002/2013TC003502. (SCI) [Link] [pdf]


Malavieille, Jacques, Giancarlo Molli, Manon Genti, Stephane Dominguez, Olivier Beyssac, Alfredo Taboada, Alberto Vitale-Brovarone, Chia-Yu Lu, Chih-Tung Chen, 2016, Formation of ophiolite-bearing tectono-sedimentary mélanges in accretionary wedges by gravity driven submarine erosion: Insights from analog models and case studies, Journal of Geodynamics 100, 87-103, doi: 10.1016/j.jog.2016.05.008. (SCI) [Link] [pdf]


Chen, Chih-Tung, Yu-Chang Chan, Ching-Hua Lo, Chia-Yu Lu, 2016, Growth of mica porphyroblasts under low-grade metamorphism -A Taiwanese case using in-situ40Ar/39Ar laser microprobe dating, Journal of Structural Geology 92, 1-11, doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2016.09.005. (SCI) [Link] [pdf]


Chen, Chih-Tung, Yu-Chang Chan, Ching-Hua Lo, Jacques Malavieille, Chia-Yu Lu, Jui-Ting Tang, Yuan-Hsi Lee, 2018, Basal accretion, a major mechanism for mountain building in Taiwan revealed in rock history, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 152, 80-90, doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2017.11.030. (SCI) [Link] [pdf]


Chen, Chih-Tung, Chieh-Yu Wu, Ching-Hua Lo, Hao-Tsu Chu, Tzen-Fu Yui, (2018), Dating paleo-seismic faulting in the Taiwan Mountain Belt, Terra Nova 30, 146-151, doi: 10.1111/ter.12319. (SCI) [Link] [pdf]


Chen, Chih-Tung, Yu-Chang Chan, Olivier Beyssac, Chia-Yu Lu, Yue-Gau Chen, Jacques Malavieille, Steven Kidder, Hao-Cheng Sun, (2019), Thermal history of the Northern Taiwanese slate belt and implications for wedge growth during the Neogene arc-continent collision, Tectonics 38-9, 3335-3350, doi:10.1029/2019TC005604 (SCI) [Link] [pdf]

      *Figure 5 selected as cover image for Tectonics 38-9

Lo, Yun-Chieh, Chih-Tung Chen*, Ching-Hua Lo, Sun-Lin Chung, (2020), Ages of ophiolitic rocks along plate suture in Taiwan orogen: fate of the South China Sea from subduction to collision, Terrestrial, Atmospheric, and Oceanic Sciences 31-4, 383-402, doi: 10.3319/TAO.2019.06.19.01 (SCI, corresponding author) [Link] [pdf]

      *Figure 6 selected as cover image for TAO 31-4


Malavieille, Jacques, Stephane Dominguez, Chia-Yu Lu, Chih-Tung Chen, Elana Konstantinovskaya, (2021), Deformation partitioning in mountain belts, insights from analogue modeling experiments and the Taiwan collisional orogen, Geological Magazine 158, 84-103 doi: 10.1017/S0016756819000645 (SCI) [Link] [pdf]


Dinh, Thi-Hue, Yu-Chang Chan, Chung-Pai Chang, Chih-Tung Chen, Yi-Chun Hsu, (2021), Deformation patterns and potential active movements of the Fansipan mountain range, northern Vietnam, International Journal of Earth Sciences (Geol. Rundsch.) 110, 35-51. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-020-01931-8 (SCI) [Link] [pdf]

Dinh, Thi-Hue, Yu-Chang Chan, Chih-Tung Chen, 2022, Extensional tectonics and basement uplift of the Fansipan and Tule mountain ranges in northern Vietnam, Frontiers in Earth Science, 9:741670. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.741670 (SCI) [Link][pdf]

Li, Zhi-Nuo, Chia-Yu Lu, Rui Gao, Chih-Tung Chen, 2022. Oblique convergence and back-arc extension in northern Taiwan-Ryukyu area: insights from sandbox modeling, Acta Geoscientica Sinica 43, 609-615. doi: 10.3975/cagsb.2022.022501 [Link][pdf]


Chih-Tung Chen, Ching-Hua Lo, Pei-Ling Wang, Li-Hung Lin, 2022, Extensional mountain building along convergent plate boundary: Insights from the active Taiwan mountain belt, Geology 50, 1245-1249.  https://doi.org/10.1130/G50311.1 (SCI) [Link] [pdf]


Lo, Yun-Chieh, Chih-Tung Chen*, Ching-Hua Lo, Sun-Lin Chung, Meng-Wan Yeh, 2023, Record of short-lived“orogen” on Eurasian continental margin by South China Sea obduction preserved in Taiwan collision, Frontiers in Earth Science 11:1118520. doi: 10.3389/feart.2023.1118520 (SCI, corresponding author) [Link][pdf]


Pang, Chi-Hsiu, Tzu-Ruei Yang, Ying-Ju Chang, Shu-Hong Lin, Liang-Jian Shiau, Chih-Tung Chen, Chung-Pai Chang, Li Lo, 2023, The first discovery of amber resin in Lichi Mélange, Eastern Taiwan, Frontiers in Earth Science 11:1078703. doi: 10.3389/feart.2023.1078703 (SCI) [Link][pdf]


Chih-Cheng Chung, Chih-Tung Chen*, Chia-Yu Lu, 2023, Quantitative analyses of deformation band occurrence and host rock properties in pyroclastic rocks of eastern Taiwan, Journal of Structural Geology 173, 104910. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2023.104910 (SCI, corresponding author) [Link][pdf]

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Publications –field guides


Chen, Chih-Tung, Yu-Chang Chan, Jian-Cheng Lee, 2015, Guide for Post-Conference field trip (5-day trip), The 8th World Chinese Geosciences Conference, 49 pp.


Chen, Chih-Tung, Yu-Chang Chan, Jian-Cheng Lee, Timothy Byrne, 2015, Guide for Taroko Field Trip, US-Taiwan Geosciences Collaboration FACET (Feedbacks and coupling Among Climate, Erosion and Tectonics during mountain building) workshop, 30 pp.


Chen, Chih-Tung, Ling-Ho Chung, Chung-Pai Chang, Chia-Han Tseng, Hao-Tzu Chu, Jian-Cheng Lee, 2014, Post-conference fieldtrip guidebook for the 2014 International Conference on Geodynamics and Environment in East Asia & 7th Taiwan-France Symposium in Earth Science, 36 pp.


Chen, Chih-Tung, 2012, Introduction to earthquake geology of the Shanchiao Fault in the Taipei Metropolis, Field guidebook for the Geological Society located at Taipei. (in Chinese)

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Publications –others


陳致同, 2018, “台灣中央山脈古地震的直接年代測定”, 台灣地震科學中心通訊 第二十二期 (Taiwan Earthquake Research Center Newsletter 2018/12) (in Chinese) [Link]


陳致同, 2018,  ”從一塊板岩,窺探台灣造山的動態歷程”, 中華民國地質學會 星期五地質專欄 (science outreach article in Chinese) [Link]


Chen, Chih-Tung, 2012, Earthquake geology of the active Shanchiao Fault in the Taipei Metropolis, Taiwan. Doctoral dissertation, National Taiwan University, 195pp.

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