Liu-Huang-Ku hydrothermal area (Taipei City, Taiwan)
Liu-huang-ku Sulfur Valley Geothermal Scenic Area
| Volcano: | Liu-Huang-Ku geothermal area (see Liu-Huang-Ku geothermal area at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab) |
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| Type: | Soil Diffuse Emission |
| Description: | LHK hydrothermal area, formed ca. 0.8 to 0.6 million years ago, is a 1 km long, 150 m wide phreatic crater located on the hillside of southwest Tatun Volcanic Group (TVG) with several steaming fumaroles and artificial hot springs. Fumarolic gas composition of TVG samples reflects a mixing signature between convergent plate gases and air/groundwater, suggesting that the magma source of the TVG gas is closely associated with the subduction system in NE Taiwan. |
Point of contact for this site:
Tefang Faith Lan , tyyang@ntu.edu.tw (Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University)
Bibliographic references for this site
Lan Tefang Faith , Tsanyao Frank Yang, Hsiao-Fen Lee, Yue-Gau Chen,Cheng-Hong Chen, Sheng-Rong Song, Shuhjong Tsao, 2007,Compositions and flux of soil gas in Liu-Huang-Ku hydrothermal area, northern Taiwan, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, vol.165, pp. 32-4, DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2007.04.015
