Western Taiwan
Ninety-nine peaks area of Taiwan stripped of vegetation during
earthquake-triggered landsliding (Photo: J. C. Lin, NTU)
Turtle Island, Ilan County, Taiwan
Left: Monument marking Tropic of Cancer; Right: Rope-bridge in use to cross highway damaged by
earthquake-triggered landsliding in Taroko National Park, Taiwan.
Taroko Gorge National Park, Taiwan.
Left: Surface of Juo-Feng-Er landslide triggered by the Chi-Chi earthquake. The landslide is a dip-slope translational rock slide
which displaced 30 million cubic metres of rock. The surface of the rock slide has begun to disintegrate, and
much debris remains poised to fail in subsequent storms. Right: Marble slot-gorge where Li-Wu river crosses
a 6 km thick sequence of marbles and gneisses forming the Taroko gorge, which is up to 2 km deep.
Channel side-bar deposits emplaced during large floods in Li-Wu river.
River monitoring station at Lushui on the Li-Wu river, Taroko National Park. Like many hydrometric
stations in Taiwan, this site has been operational for over 30 years.
Outlet of the Hualien River at the northern tip of the Coastal Range, Taiwan.
Needle-ice (white material in centre of frame) extruded from the soil near
the main drainage divide of the Central Range.
Folded marls of the Tailuko belt, part of the Tananao schist.
Sheath folds formed in response to intense deformation in the Tailuko belt.
Knickpoint at the Tachia river showing vertical displacement of ~3 m which occurred during the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake
Open-pit trench near Chushan, Nantou County, Taiwan.
Excavated under the direction of W. S. Chen, NTU.
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