The western boundary of extrusion blocks in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau

The model about block extrusion related to collision between Eurasia and India which is proposed by Tapponnier et al. has not been accepted so far in the field. Based on kinematics and chronology, the Gailigong dextral strike-slip fault in west Yunnan and Nabang dextral strike-slip fault which is the part of Mogok belt are the western boundary of extrusion blocks, as the eastern boundary Red River-Ailaoshan left-lateral fault. And more studies show that as the important way for absorbing the convergence between two continents, the age of blocks’ multistage extrusion is about 23 and 13 Ma.