“…To the east of these faults, a series of sinistral strike-slip faults developed in East Asia and the Tibet Plateau (Fig. 11C), such as the western segment of the Altyn-Tagh Fault (ATF) (Arnaud et al, 2003), the eastern segment of the Altyn-Tagh Fault (ATF) Tang et al, 2012), North Zuunbayan Fault (NZF) (Johnson, 2004), Nenjiang-Balihan Fault (NBF) (Han et al, 2012), strike-slip faults in the Qinling-Dabie orogen Ratschbacher et al, 2000;Wang et al, 2003), and the Kunlun Fault (Arnaud et al, 2003). In eastern China, eastern Mongolia, and Transbaikalia, regional strike-slip faulting triggered gravitational collapse of upper crust thickened during the SiberiaAmuria collision, resulting in the formation of rift basins (e.g., Traynor and Sladen, 1995;Zorin, 1999;Graham et al, 2001;Johnson et al, 2001;Meng, 2003) and metamorphic core complexes (e.g., Zorin, 1999;Donskaya et al, 2008;Wang et al, 2011;Daoudene et al, 2013) (Fig.…”