Late Quaternary landform evolution and sedimentary successions in the Miaoli Tableland, northwestern Taiwan

Liu, Shih-Hung; Hebenstreit, Robert; Böse, Margot

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-71-1-2022

Articles | Volume 71, issue 1

E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 71, 1–22, 2022

https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-71-1-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 71, 1–22, 2022

https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-71-1-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 71, issue 1

Research article 18 Jan 2022

Research article | 18 Jan 2022

Late Quaternary landform evolution and sedimentary successions in the Miaoli Tableland, northwestern Taiwan

Shih-Hung Liu et al.

Data sets

The columnar sections and pictures of the outcrops in Miaoli Tableland S.-H. Liu, M. Böse, and R. Hebenstreit https://doi.org/10.17169/refubium-31813

Short summary

The Miaoli Tableland (northwestern Taiwan) consists of a sequence of fine-grained tidal to coarse fluvial late Quaternary sediments which underwent a spatially differentiated uplift and fluvial dissection. They reveal repeated rework processes of fluvial cobbles from the highlands to the coast. A new landform classification based on high-resolution 3D terrain analysis results in a new interpretation of the landform evolution. The results favour a local rarely used Quaternary stratigraphic code.