大汉溪袭夺对台北盆地影响.PDF

6 1 師大地理研究報告　第 4 1期　民國 93 年 11 月 Geographical Research No. 4 1, November. 2004 大漢溪襲奪對台北盆地的影響 * Influence of Tahan River Capture over the Taipei Basin 鄧屬予*1 劉聰桂*1 陳于高*1 劉平妹*1 Lo uis S . Te ng T s u ng - Kw e i Li u Y ue - Ga u C he n Pi ng- Me i Liew 李錫堤*2 劉桓吉*3 彭志雄 *4 C hy i-Ty i Lee Hua n- C hi L iu C hi h- Hs i ung Pe ng A bst ra ct To investigate how the Taipei Basin responded to the capture of the Tahan River, we examine borehole stratigraphic data of the Taipei Basin and find that the area downstream of the Tahan River is dominated by fluvial sand/mud sourced from the Western Foothills. The only exception is the Jingmei Formation that is comprised of thick alluvial-fan gravels derived from the Hsuehshan Range. Because the upper Tahan River drains the Hsuehshan Range, the prevalence of Hsuehshan-derived sediment in the Jingmei Formation indicates that the Tahan River had been diverted into the Taipei Basin when the Jingmei Formation was deposited. In other parts of the Taipei Basin, the Jingmei Formation is not the only alluvial fan deposit, but its dimension is much larger than that previously laid down by other rivers (mainly Hsintien). This shows that an extra amount of gravel was fed into the Taipei Basin as a result of Tahan River capture. Before the capture, the Taipei Basin was most likely covered with a fluvial plain drained by the Hsintien and Keelung Rivers. Eustatic sea level fall around 30 Kybp rej uvenated the Tanshui River and its tributaries, which induced deep channel incision in the Taipei Basin. One of the tributaries in the western Taipei Basin, namely the Yinge River, eroded headward th