Await foreland basin is located in the northwestern Tarim Basin. In Cenozoic
Kalpintagthrusted voilently towards southeast with NE trend Shajingzi fault being its major slip plane.Great thickness of Cenozoic sediments deposited on the southeastern side of the Shajingzifault. The thickness reduced rapidly southeastward
thus forming asymmetrical fie-cure sedi.mentary basin. According to its geotectonic location
its developing time and genesis
Awati foreland basin should neither belong to peripheral foreland basin
nor belong to retroarc foreland basin. It is a new kind of foreland basin-intracontinental foreland basin.