Figure 8. Schemes showing geodynamic evolution of the Central Asian foldbelt (omitting contiguous areas): 1 - Early Silurian, 2 - Early Devonian, 3 - Middle Devonian, 4 - Late Devonian, 5 - Early Carboniferous, 6 - Late Carboniferous, 7 - Early Permian. Symbols: 1 - continents and microcontinents, 2 - oceans and backarc basins, 3 - Urals-Turkestan subduction belt, 4 - Junggar-Balkhash subduction belt, 5 - Siberian subduction belt, 6 - Paleo-Tethyan subduction zones, 7 - other structural sutures and principal strike slip faults, 8 - sense of rotation of continental blocks. Acronyms denote continents (EUR = European, SIB = Siberian, KAZ = Kazakhstan) and oceans (UR = Uralian, TK = Turkestan, DB = Junggar-Balkhash, OZ = Ob-Zaisan, PT = Paleo-Tethys). Numerals mark microcontinents and continental blocks: 1 - Tarim, 2 - Baisun, 3 - Vartovsk-Nyurolka, 4 - Khanty-Mansi, 6 - Bechasyn-Karabogaz, 7 - Ustyurt-Karakum-Amu-Darya, 8 - Baydaratsky.