Preface: Introduction to the geology and geophysics of Taiwan • Structural expressions of flexural extension in an arc-continent collisional foredeep of western Taiwan, Ying-Wei Chou and Ho-Shing Yu • Inversion tectonics of the fold-and-thrust belt, western Taiwan, Chung-I Lee, Yu-Long Chang, and Mike P. Coward • Variations along the strike of the Taiwan thrust belt: Basement control on structural style, wedge geometry, and kinematics, F. Mouthereau, B. Deffontaines, O. Lacombe, and J. Angelier •Synchroneity and morphology of Holocene river terraces in the southern Western Foothills, Taiwan: A guide to interpreting and correlating erosional river terraces across growing anticlines, Meng-Long Hsieh and Peter L.K. Knuepfer • Structure and evolution of the active fold-and-thrust belt of southwestern Taiwan from Global Positioning System analysis, John B. Hickman, David V. Wiltschko, Jih-Hao Hung, Peng Fang, and Yehuda Bock • Taiwan Slate Belt: Insights into the ductile interior of an arc-continent collision, Donald M. Fisher, Chia-Yu Lu, and Hao-Tsu Chu • Lateral extrusion in a transpressional collision zone: An example from the pre-Tertiary metamorphic basement of Taiwan Michael H. Pulver, Jean M. Crespi, and Timothy B. Byrne • Estimation of thermal structure of a young orogenic belt according to a model of whole-crust thickening, Teh-Ru Alex Song and Kuo-Fong Ma • Synorogenic extension, Taiwan: Implications of physical and numerical modeling, Wei-Hau Wang and Wen-Jie Hung • Transition tectonics of northern Taiwan induced by convergence and trench retreat, Jyr-Ching Hu, Shui-Beih Yu, Hao-Tsu Chu, and Jacques Angelier • Crustal structure of the convergent plate-boundary zone, eastern Taiwan, assessed by seismic tomography, Win-Bin Cheng, Chengsung Wang, Chuen-Tien Shyu, and Tzay-Chyn Shin • Compressional subduction regime and initial arc-continent collision: Numerical modeling, J.-C. Tang, A.I. Chemenda, J. Ch?ry, S. Lallemand, and R. Hassani • Arc-continent collision in Taiwan: New marine observations and tectonic evolution, Jacques Malavieille, Serge E. Lallemand, Stephane Dominguez, Anne Deschamps, Chia-Yu Lu, Char-Shine Liu, Philippe Schn?rle, and the ACT Scientific Crew