Figure 3: Miocene range growth, faulting and basin deformation throughout the northeastern Tibetan Plateau.

The timing of the rapid exhumation of the ranges was based on Zheng et al.10, George et al.25, Duvall et al.34 and Ritts et al.35. Left-lateral strike-slip fault initiation ages were derived from Yuan et al.6 and Duvall et al.34. Changes in provenance /accumulation rates and basin formation/rotation were derived from Wang et al.17, Wang et al.26, Lin et al.27, Bovet et al.28, Fang et al.33, Garzione et al.36, Lease et al.37, Wang et al.38, Yan et al.39, Wang et al.40. The Fig. 3 was created by the Global Mapper 13 (http://www.bluemarblegeo.com/products/global-mapper-download.php) and CorelDRAW X7 (http://www.coreldraw.com/us/pages/free-download).