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Based on analyses of about 970 zircon grain fission-track (FT) ages from 44 clastic rock samples collected from six transects and two pooled ages of apatite concentrates separated from a diabase body, the thermo-kinematic evolution of the Taiwan mountain belt since the last orogenic phase (the Penglai Orogeny) has been delineated for the first time. As a consequence of the active Penglai Orogeny since...