The last episode occurred in the Himalayan epoch from the Late Cretaceous to the Paleogene,in which the lower Yangtze area underwent the transformation and deformation caused by the S-N extension and detachment as well as domino type of pulling-apart and faulting structures.

Different shapes of detachment structure provides the transport channels and enriched spaces of ore-forming fluid.

Petroleum plays in rift basins and extensional structures;

Crustal detachment and destruction of the North China craton: constraints from Late Mesozoic extensional structures.;

Features of extensional structure in the north margin of Huanan Plate (Pingxiang section in Jiangxi province);

There are inversion-type,stacking-type,imbricate-type,and hind-pull-type coal-controlling extensional structures.

Dayangshu Basin experienced multistage deformations,which is characterized mainly by extensional structures,and was superimposed by compressional structures and positive inversion structures.