

From these simple relationships it is possible to calculate that at least 1 × 10 7 km 3 of material was eroded from the Main Central Thrust of the Himalayas between about 20 and about 15 Ma, and that a comparable amount must have been removed from the southern front of the Dabie Shan-Sulu region of eastern China between the Middle Triassic and Middle Jurassic. For any given dip an increase in the differential pressure requires an increase in cross-sectional area that must be removed, both above and in the foreland direction of this point. The amount of material that must be removed syn-kinematically is dependent on the pressure differential across the thrust and the dip of the thrust. If the thrust bounds the metamorphic front of an orogen and deposition occurs synchronously with thrusting in the foreland, removal of material is required to occur syn-kinematically, otherwise the thrust will bury the foreland. If a thrust juxtaposes rocks that record markedly different equilibrium pressures, material must have been removed from the hanging wall syn-kinematically. Thrusting by itself does not effect pressures in the hanging wall, and hence the footwall would be expected to assume the pressure gradient of the hanging wall. Because pressure is a simple function of overburden it is possible to calculate the horizontal distance from the toe to the point along the slab at any given pressure.

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