Sea level changes and Coastal Evolution and Neotectonics: INQUA Commissions joint meeting, Taiwan, 2001

摘要

The Commission on Sea level Changes and Coastal Evolution of INQUA serves to facilitate and enhance the scope of collaborative research, and one of their ways of doing so is to convene a meeting of scientists in a region of key scientific importance. In October 2001, a joint meeting of this Commission with the INQUA Commission of Neotectonics was held in the tectonically active island of Taiwan. The meeting was an acknowledgement of the fact that in recent years there has been considerable research on the relationship between active tectonism, climate, surface processes and the evolution of the earth's topography. Taiwan is perhaps one of the best places on Earth to understand how active tectonism and climatically-induced sea level changes interact in the process of coastal evolution. The participants of the meeting together presented wide-ranging work that clearly showed the major developments in this topic area that have occurred in recent years.