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Late Quaternary landform evolution and sedimentary successions in the Miaoli Tableland, northwestern Taiwan
Shih-Hung Liu
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Institute of Geographical Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, 12249 Berlin, Germany
Robert Hebenstreit
Institute of Geographical Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, 12249 Berlin, Germany
Margot Böse
Institute of Geographical Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, 12249 Berlin, Germany
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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.
The Miaoli Tableland (northwestern Taiwan) consists of a sequence of fine-grained tidal to...
