陳致同
Chen, Chih-Tung
Associate Professor
in Swiss Alps
National Central University
Earth Sciences Building, room S303-1
Tel: +886-3-4227151
ext 65648
E-mail: chihtung@ncu.edu.tw; kthomasch@gmail.com
Official page Personal
& lab page
Research interest: tectonics, structural
geology,
mountain building processes, active tectonics
2020 ~ : Associate professor, Department of Earth
Sciences, National Central University
2017-2020: Assistant
professor, Department of Earth Sciences, National Central University
2015-2017: Postdoctoral
research fellow, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University
2012-2015: Postdoctoral
research fellow,
[Education]
Ph.D. Department of Geosciences,
B.S. Department of Geosciences,
[Academic services]
Vice
Secretary-General (2017/11-2019/6), Council Member (2019/6-2023/6), Geological
Society located at Taipei
Session chair and
convener, Asia and Oceania Geosciences Assembly Annual Meeting (2018, 2019); Geological
Annual Congress of Taiwan (2012, 2014, 2018, 2019); Taiwan Orogeny Forum
(2018); Forum on Urban Geoenvironment and Sustainable Development (2014)
[Honors received]
Most-cited Article Award
(2020-2024), Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Chinese Geoscience
Union (2025)
Excellent Young Scholar
Research Grant, National Science and Technology Council, R.O.C. (2019-2021,
2024-2027)
Excellence in Research Award,
National Central University (2024)
Young Scholar Award (馬廷英青年論文獎Prof. Ting-Ying Ma Memorial), Geological Society located
in Taipei (2022)
Best Reviewer Award,
Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Chinese Geoscience Union (2022)
Teaching Award, College of
Earth Sciences, National Central University (2020, 2022)
Excellent Young Scholar
Research Grant, Ministry of Science and Technology, R.O.C. (2019-2021)
Postdoctoral Publication Award,
Ministry of Science and Technology, R.O.C. (2017)
Outstanding Reviewer,
Engineering Geology (2017)
Honorary
member, the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of the Republic of China
(2012)
Dean’s
Award,
Best
Article Award (2009-2010), Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences,
Chinese Geoscience
[Publications -journal papers]
Chen, Chih-Tung,
Chen,
Chih-Tung,
Chen,
Chih-Tung,
Yui,
Tzen-Fu, Tadashi Usuki, Chun-Yen Chen, Akizumi Ishida, Yuji Sano, Kenshi Suga,
Yoshiyuki Iizuka, Chih-Tung Chen, 2014, Dating thin zircon rims by NanoSIMS: the Fengtien nephrite (Taiwan) is
the youngest jade on Earth, International
Geology Review 56-16, 1932-1944. (SCI) [Link] [pdf]
Chen,
Chih-Tung, Jian-Cheng Lee, Yu-Chang Chan, Chia-Yu Lu, Louis
Suh-Yui Teng, 2014, Elucidating the
geometry of the active Shanchiao Fault in the Taipei metropolis, northern
Taiwan, and the reactivation relationship with preexisting orogen structures,
Tectonics 33-12, 2400-2418,
doi:10.1002/2013TC003502. (SCI) [Link] [pdf]
Malavieille, Jacques, Giancarlo Molli, Manon Genti,
Stephane Dominguez, Olivier Beyssac, Alfredo Taboada, Alberto Vitale-Brovarone,
Chia-Yu Lu, Chih-Tung Chen, 2016, Formation
of ophiolite-bearing tectono-sedimentary mélanges in accretionary wedges by
gravity driven submarine erosion: Insights from analog models and case studies,
Journal of Geodynamics 100, 87-103,
doi: 10.1016/j.jog.2016.05.008.
(SCI) [Link] [pdf]
Chen, Chih-Tung, Yu-Chang Chan, Ching-Hua Lo, Chia-Yu Lu, 2016, Growth of mica porphyroblasts under low-grade metamorphism -A Taiwanese
case using in-situ40Ar/39Ar
laser microprobe dating, Journal of
Structural Geology 92, 1-11, doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2016.09.005. (SCI) [Link] [pdf]
Chen, Chih-Tung, Yu-Chang Chan, Ching-Hua Lo, Jacques Malavieille, Chia-Yu Lu, Jui-Ting
Tang, Yuan-Hsi Lee, 2018, Basal
accretion, a major mechanism for mountain building in Taiwan revealed in rock
history, Journal of Asian Earth
Sciences 152, 80-90, doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2017.11.030. (SCI) [Link] [pdf]
Chen, Chih-Tung, Chieh-Yu Wu, Ching-Hua Lo, Hao-Tsu Chu, Tzen-Fu Yui, (2018), Dating paleo-seismic faulting in the Taiwan
Mountain Belt, Terra Nova 30,
146-151, doi: 10.1111/ter.12319. (SCI) [Link]
[pdf]
Chen, Chih-Tung, Yu-Chang Chan, Olivier Beyssac, Chia-Yu Lu, Yue-Gau Chen, Jacques
Malavieille, Steven Kidder, Hao-Cheng Sun, (2019), Thermal history of the Northern Taiwanese slate belt and implications
for wedge growth during the Neogene arc-continent collision, Tectonics 38-9, 3335-3350,
doi:10.1029/2019TC005604 (SCI) [Link]
[pdf]
*Figure 5 selected as cover
image for Tectonics 38-9
Lo, Yun-Chieh, Chih-Tung Chen*, Ching-Hua Lo,
Sun-Lin Chung, (2020), Ages of ophiolitic
rocks along plate suture in Taiwan orogen: fate of the South China Sea from
subduction to collision, Terrestrial,
Atmospheric, and Oceanic Sciences 31-4, 383-402, doi:
10.3319/TAO.2019.06.19.01 (SCI, corresponding author) [Link]
[pdf]
*Figure
6 selected as cover
image for TAO 31-4
Malavieille, Jacques, Stephane Dominguez, Chia-Yu Lu,
Chih-Tung Chen, Elana Konstantinovskaya, (2021), Deformation partitioning in mountain belts, insights from analogue
modeling experiments and the Taiwan collisional orogen, Geological Magazine 158, 84-103. doi:
10.1017/S0016756819000645 (SCI) [Link]
[pdf]
Dinh, Thi-Hue, Yu-Chang Chan, Chung-Pai Chang, Chih-Tung
Chen, Yi-Chun Hsu, (2021), Deformation
patterns and potential active movements of the Fansipan mountain range,
northern Vietnam, International
Journal of Earth Sciences (Geol. Rundsch.) 110, 35-51.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-020-01931-8 (SCI) [Link] [pdf]
Dinh, Thi-Hue, Yu-Chang Chan, Chih-Tung Chen, 2022, Extensional tectonics and basement uplift of the Fansipan and Tule mountain ranges in northern Vietnam, Frontiers in Earth Science, 9:741670. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.741670 (SCI) [Link] [pdf]
Chih-Tung Chen, Ching-Hua Lo, Pei-Ling Wang, Li-Hung Lin, 2022, Extensional mountain building along convergent plate boundary: Insights
from the active Taiwan mountain belt, Geology
50, 1245-1249. https://doi.org/10.1130/G50311.1 (SCI) [Link]
[pdf]
Li, Zhi-Nuo, Chia-Yu Lu, Rui Gao, Chih-Tung Chen,
2022. Oblique convergence and back-arc
extension in northern Taiwan-Ryukyu area: insights from sandbox modeling, Acta Geoscientica Sinica 43, 609-615.
doi: 10.3975/cagsb.2022.022501 [Link]
[pdf]
Lo, Yun-Chieh, Chih-Tung Chen*, Ching-Hua Lo,
Sun-Lin Chung, Meng-Wan Yeh, 2023, Record
of short-lived“orogen” on Eurasian continental margin by South China Sea
obduction preserved in Taiwan collision, Frontiers in Earth Science 11:1118520. doi:
10.3389/feart.2023.1118520 (SCI, corresponding author) [Link]
[pdf]
Pang, Chi-Hsiu, Tzu-Ruei Yang, Ying-Ju Chang,
Shu-Hong Lin, Liang-Jian Shiau, Chih-Tung Chen, Chung-Pai Chang, Li Lo,
2023, The first discovery of amber resin
in Lichi Mélange, Eastern Taiwan, Frontiers
in Earth Science 11:1078703. doi: 10.3389/feart.2023.1078703 (SCI) [Link]
[pdf]
Chung, Chih-Cheng, Chih-Tung Chen*, Chia-Yu
Lu, 2023, Quantitative analyses of
deformation band occurrence and host rock properties in pyroclastic rocks of
eastern Taiwan, Journal of
Structural Geology 173, 104910. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2023.104910
(SCI, corresponding author) [Link]
[pdf]
Kumar, Gopal, Yu-Chang Chan, Cheng-Wei Sun, Chih-Tung
Chen, 2024, Decadal-scale assessment
of sediment denudation rates in the Zhoukou River Basin, Taiwan: insights from
improved DEMs of differencing based on spectral analysis, Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk 15,
2363428. doi: 10.1080/19475705.2024.2363428 (SCI) [Link]
[pdf]
Lien, Wan-Yin, Chih-Tung Chen, Yun-Hsuan Lee,
Chih-Chieh Su, Pei-Ling Wang, Li-Hung Lin, 2025, Two-stage oxidation of petrogenic organic carbon in a rapidly exhuming
small mountainous catchment, Communications
Earth & Environment 6, 45, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02015-8
(SCI) [Link] [pdf]
[Publications –field guides]
Chen, Chih-Tung, Yu-Chang Chan, Jian-Cheng Lee, 2015,
Guide for Post-Conference field trip (5-day trip), The 8th World
Chinese Geosciences Conference, 49 pp.
Chen, Chih-Tung, Yu-Chang Chan, Jian-Cheng Lee, Timothy
Byrne, 2015, Guide for Taroko Field Trip, US-Taiwan Geosciences Collaboration
FACET (Feedbacks and coupling Among Climate, Erosion and Tectonics during
mountain building) workshop, 30 pp.
Chen, Chih-Tung, Ling-Ho Chung, Chung-Pai Chang, Chia-Han
Tseng, Hao-Tzu Chu, Jian-Cheng Lee, 2014, Post-conference fieldtrip guidebook
for the 2014 International Conference on Geodynamics and Environment in East
Asia & 7th Taiwan-France Symposium in Earth Science, 36 pp.
Chen, Chih-Tung, 2012, Introduction to earthquake geology
of the Shanchiao Fault in the Taipei Metropolis, Field guidebook for the
Geological Society located at Taipei. (in Chinese)
[Publications –others]
陳致同, 2018, “台灣中央山脈古地震的直接年代測定”, 台灣地震科學中心通訊 第二十二期 (Taiwan Earthquake
Research Center Newsletter 2018/12) (in Chinese) [Link]
陳致同, 2018, ”從一塊板岩，窺探台灣造山的動態歷程”, 中華民國地質學會 星期五地質專欄 (science
outreach article in Chinese) [Link]
Chen, Chih-Tung, 2012, Earthquake geology of the active
Shanchiao Fault in the Taipei Metropolis, Taiwan. Doctoral dissertation,