“…The southward slab tearing has been supported by several lines of evidence. Post‐collisional ultrapotassic rocks along the north‐trending rifts, particularly in Tangra Yum Co rift (Figure 1a, Z. F. Guo et al., 2013), show a southward younging trend, which is interpreted as a representative for the southward lithospheric tear (Ding et al., 2006; X. Y. Guo et al., 2018; Z. F. Guo & Wilson, 2019; Hou et al., 2006; R. Wang et al., 2021; Yan et al., 2019). This scenario is analogous to slab tearing that has been postulated worldwide, such as in Turkey (Dilek & Altunkaynak, 2009; Govers & Fichtner, 2016), Indonesia (Koulakov et al., 2016), Japan (Obayashi et al., 2009), Italy (Gutscher et al., 2016), Mariana (Miller et al., 2006) and South America (Hu & Liu, 2016).…”