India–Asia collision, we carried out a magnetostratigraphic study at the Kuitun He section,
on the northern flank of the Tianshan range (northwest China). A total of 801 samples were
collected from a 1559-m-thick section, which is composed mainly of fluvio-lacustrine
sandstone and conglomerate. Stepwise thermal and alternating field demagnetization
isolated a linear magnetization component that decays univectorally toward the origin and …