“…For instance, the indentation of the Indian indenter is accommodated by shortening and uplift of the Himalayas and Tibet, and lateral extrusion towards SE Asia (Chen et al, 2000;Molnar and Tapponier, 1975;Searle et al, 2011;Shen et al, 2001;Sternai et al, 2016;Tapponier et al, 1986), shortening in front of the Arabian indenter is accompanied by Anatolian extrusion towards the Aegean (Kaymakci et al, 2010;Mantovani et al, 2006;Martinod et al, 2000;Regard et al, 2005), or the post-Oligocene shortening in the Eastern Alps is accompanied by extrusion towards the Pannonian-Carpathians region (Frisch et al, 1998;Neubauer et al, 2000;Ratschbacher et al, 1991b;Rosenberg et al, 2018;van Gelder et al, 2020, Wölfler et al, 2011. The lateral transfer of collisional shortening to other subduction systems is often facilitated by a complex strike-slip and transpressional/transtensional deformation associated with significant strain partitioning (e.g., Jolivet et al, 2018;van Hinsbergen et al, 2020;van Unen et al, 2019a). Similar to many other studies (e.g., Benesh et al, 2014;Cembrano et al, 2005;D'el-Rey Silva et al, 2011;De Vicente et al, 2009;Glen, 2004;Krézsek et al, 2013), we use the term strain partitioning in its general meaning of a multi-scale distribution of the total strain in different types of coeval structures whose kinematics cannot be explained by a homogenous stress field.…”