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The two-layer deformation clearly defines the role of subduction in the formation of the Taiwan mountainbelt.
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Sedimentary basins are intimately linked to mountainbelts through patterns of crustal uplift and subsidence.
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So, if you want to find out about ancient mountainbelts, you gotta look at the adjacent basin.
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It possesses four distinct zones, ranging from the almost arctic cold of the mountainbelts to an almost tropical heat in the southern lowlands.
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Mountainbelts get eroded...that material ends up as sediment...if you want to learn something about ancient mountain belts, look at the sediments that they produced.