Episodic uplifting, erosion and sedimentation of Taiwan, a possible target of scientific ocean drilling

Taiwan has been known as of high uplift rate and the uplifted mountain region provides huge amount of sediments that buries carbon in the surrounding oceanic basins. The uplifting process has been episodic, suggested by several evidences, and this may be associated with episodic accretion and collision process at the eastern and western margins offshore Taiwan. If the uplift is produced as a pop-up structure between these two convergent margins, strength of the two detachment zones may play a key role to determine the uplifting amount. We will introduce outline of our potential targets of offshore scientific drilling to examine such hypothesis, based on our interpretation of seismic profiles.