SEDIMENTARY RESPONSES TO THRUSTING AND STRIKE-SLIPPING OF LONGMEN SHAN ALONG THE EASTERN MARGIN OF TIBETAN PLATEAU AND IMPLICATIONS FOR ACCRETION OF CIMMERIAN CONTINENTS AND INDIA/EURASIA COLLISION

1. Introduction A central goal of stratigraphic studies of foreland basins is to discern which of the possible controls is responsible for vertical trends. In many cases, the primary interest has been to determine the time of deformation in the mountain belt from strata in the foreland basin (Jordan et al., 1988). Traditionally, an active tectonic phase was presumed to cause high relief, and then an immediate flux of coarse sediment into the basin, which produced conglomerates (Longwell, 193…