“…the collision between the Qiangtang and the northern terranes, such as the Songpan-Ganzi Terrane and Tarim Basin (e.g., Kapp et al, 2003b;Pan et al, 2004a;Pullen et al, 2008;Li et al, 2009a;Gehrels et al, 2011;Zhu et al, 2013;Song et al, 2015Song et al, , 2017Song et al, , 2020Yu et al, 2022a), the closure of the Meso-Tethys-Bangong-Nujiang Ocean, i.e. the Lhasa Qiangtang collision ( e.g., Metcalfe et al, 2006;Zhu et al, 2011;Zhang et al, 2012;Ding et al, 2013;Fan et al, 2014;Yan et al, 2016;Chen et al, 2017bChen et al, , 2020, and the crustal shortening and widespread lateral extrusion of lithospheric blocks after the 10|Page India-Eurasia collision (e.g., Tapponnier et al, 1982;Otofuji et al, 1990;Huang et al, 1992;Tong et al, 2015Tong et al, , 2017Tong et al, , 2022Li et al, 2020b;Zhang et al, 2020a). Van Hinsbergen et al (2012).…”