“…15B) have been available from all parts of the Altaid collage and from the Kuen-Lun system at large (including the Qilian Shan, Qinghai Nan Shan, and the Anyemaqen Shan) ever since Suess (1901), Kober (1921), Argand (1924), Lee (1928), and Stille (1929) drew attention to its widespread occurrence and especially after interest in it was revived in the framework of plate tectonics by the landmark paper of Molnar and Tapponnier (1975). We here cite only a few of the more comprehensive, exemplary, and the most recent studies documenting it: Şengör (1984; 1987), Hendrix et al (1992), Lu et al (1994), Allen et al (1995), Cunningham et al (1996), Allen and Vincent (1997), Burov and Molnar (1998), Delville et al (2001), Greene et al (2001), Ritts and Biffi (2001), Sobel et al (2001), Sjostrom et al (2001), Vincent and Allen (2001), Chen et al (2002), Wartes et al (2002), and Xiao et al (2004).…”