A field conference to discuss the sedimentology, stratigraphy and controls on sedimentation in basins along convergent margins. Our focus is on forearc, backarc, and peripheral foreland basins.

The mountainous country of Taiwan is formed by the ongoing collision between the western edge of the Philippine Sea Plate and the Eurasian continental margin. As part of the SEPM’s 100th anniversary, we invite you to join a 7-day field-conference that will take you around the island to visit key outcrops recording the various stages of the island arc-continent collision and the uplift of the Taiwan orogen.

In the Western Foreland Basin, we will visit sedimentary archives recording the initiation of the collision, and study how changes in the Mio-Pleistocene East Asian hydroclimate system are preserved in shallow-marine deposits in the foreland strata. On the East Coast, we will address pre- and syn-collisional sedimentation in a volcanic-arc setting, and finally, along the NE Coast, we will study pre-collisional passive and rifting margins.

The conference will consist of alternating lectures and field visits to outcrops around the island.