@article {van_avendonk_deep_2014,
	title = {Deep crustal structure of an arc-continent collision: Constraints from seismic traveltimes in central Taiwan and the Philippine Sea},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	volume = {119},
	number = {11},
	year = {2014},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2014JB011327},
	pages = {8397{\textendash}8416},
	abstract = {The collision of continental crust of the Eurasian Plate with the overriding Luzon Arc in central Taiwan has led to compression, uplift, and exhumation of rocks that were originally part of the Chinese rifted margin. Though the kinematics of the fold-thrust belt on the west side of the orogen has been described in detail, the style of deformation in the lower crust beneath Taiwan is still not well understood. In addition, the fate of the Luzon Arc and Forearc in the collision is also not clear. Compressional wave arrival times from active-source and earthquake seismic data from the Taiwan Integrated Geodynamic Research program constrain the seismic velocity structure of the lithosphere along transect T5, an east-west corridor in central Taiwan. The results of our analysis indicate that the continental crust of the Eurasian margin forms a broad crustal root beneath central Taiwan, possibly with a thickness of 55 km. Compressional seismic velocities beneath the Central Range of Taiwan are as low as 5.5 km/s at 25 km depth, whereas P wave seismic velocities in the middle crust on the eastern flank of the Taiwan mountain belt average 6.5{\textendash}7.0 km/s. This suggests that the incoming sediments and upper crust of the Eurasian Plate are buried to midcrustal depth in the western flank of the orogen before they are exhumed in the Central Range. To the east, the Luzon Arc and Forearc are deformed beneath the Coastal Range of central Taiwan. Fragments of the rifted margin of the South China Sea that were accreted in the early stages of the collision form a new backstop that controls the exhumation of Eurasian strata to the west in this evolving mountain belt.},
	keywords = {arc-continent collision, earthquakes, Philippine Sea Plate, seismic refraction, Taiwan, tomography},
	issn = {2169-9356},
	doi = {10.1002/2014JB011327},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2014JB011327},
	author = {Van Avendonk, H. J. A. and Kuo-Chen, H. and McIntosh, K. D. and Lavier, L. L. and Okaya, D. A. and Wu, F. T. and Wang, C. Y. and Lee, C. S. and Liu, C. S.}
}
@article {christeson_crustal_2008,
	title = {Crustal structure of the Caribbean{\textendash}northeastern South America arc-continent collision zone},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	volume = {113},
	number = {B8},
	year = {2008},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2007JB005373},
	abstract = {We present the results of a 568-km-long regional wide-angle seismic profile conducted in the southeastern Caribbean that crosses an active island arc, a remnant arc, two basins possibly floored by oceanic crust, an allochthonous terrane of forearc affinity, and the passive margin of northern South America. The velocity structures of the Late Cretaceous Aves Ridge remnant arc and Miocene and younger Lesser Antilles arc are remarkably similar, which implies that magmatic processes have remained moderately steady over time. Crustal thickness is \~{}26 km at the Aves Ridge and \~{}24 km at the Lesser Antilles arc. In comparison to the Izu-Bonin and Aleutian arcs, the Lesser Antilles arc is thinner and has no evidence for a lower crustal cumulate layer, which is consistent with the estimated low magma production rates of the Lesser Antilles arc. Crustal thickness beneath the Grenada and Tobago basins is 4{\textendash}10 km, and the velocity structure suggests that these basins could be floored by oceanic crust. A decrease of \~{}1 km/s in average seismic velocity of the upper crust is observed from NW to SE across the North Coast fault zone; we argue that this marks the suture between the far-traveled Caribbean arc and the passive margin of the South American continent. Current strike-slip motion between the Caribbean and South American plates is located \~{}30 km to the south, and thus material originally deposited on the South American passive margin has now been transferred to the Caribbean plate.},
	keywords = {arc-continent collision, Lesser Antilles, SE Caribbean},
	issn = {2156-2202},
	doi = {10.1029/2007JB005373},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2007JB005373},
	author = {Christeson, Gail L. and Mann, Paul and Escalona, Alejandro and Aitken, Trevor J.}
}
