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4. Orogenic processes in Asia: regimes of continental collision (S.L. Chung, Mike Searle)
Collision between two continental plates would induce uplift of the crust and hence making
mountains of high elevation. However, due to the diverse lithologies and heterogeneous stress
fields, the resulting uplift cannot be identical in different parts of a collisional orogen. This
has been well demonstrated for the Tibetan plateau. The Himalayan-Tibetan orogen is the
most outstanding natural laboratory for studying the collisional orogeny and the influence of
its uplifted topography on the ocean water chemistry and climatic changes on Earth.
Continental collision also leads to subduction of apparently unsubductible continental crust.
This has tremendous implications for crustal recycling and for our understanding of
metamorphic processes in ultrahigh pressure conditions.
Prof. Sun-Lin Chung
Dept of Geological Sciences
National Taiwan University,
Taipei, Taiwan
e-mail: sunlin@ntu.edu.tw
Dr. M.P.Searle
Dept. Earth Sciences, Oxford University,
Parks Road., Oxford, OX1 3PR, UK
e-mail: Mike.Searle@earth.ox.ac.uk
5. Orogenic processes in Asia: regimes of continental accretion (Alfred Kröner)
Orogenic collages of Asia consist mostly of subduction-accretion complexes. They provide
an excellent possibility to reconstruct regimes of accretion in the Phanerozoic history of the
Earth and their role in the formation of the continental crust. The Pacific side of Asia where
modern rock and structural assemblages of almost all possible varieties reveal gradual
transitions to the assemblages of the geological past is the best laboratory for deciphering of
the regimes of accretion. Their examination and comparison with the assemblages of Inner
Asia may stop a simplistic approach, in which a search for explanations of inconsistency in
stratigraphic, magmatic, and structural history is substituted by recognition of mute terranes.
Prof. Alfred Kröner
Dept. of Geosciences, University of Mainz
55099 Mainz, Germany
e-mail: kroener@mail.uni-mainz.de
6. Generation of granitoids in Asia and Australia (W. Collins, T. Nakajima, Fuyuan Wu)
In contrast to the eastern pacific rim (North and South America), where granites generally
formed in narrow ((