From mountains to basins - Insights from orogenic collapse in southern Ryukyu and northern Taiwan

Along the Eurasian continental margin, fragments of island arcs and continents affiliated with Gond-wanaland have continually been accreted as suspect terraines through the processes of accretionary orogeny and ensuing orogenic collapse. These proc-esses can be vividly perceived in the present Western Pacific area, where southern Ryukyu and northern Taiwan serve as the youngest and most dynamic ex-ample of tectonic transformation from a rising moun-tain belt to a deepening marine basin.