Paleostress inversion of fault-slip data from the Jurassic to Cretaceous Huangshan Basin and implications for the tectonic evolution of southeastern China

•Fault-slip analysis was performed in the Jurassic to Cretaceous Huangshan Basin.•Eight stages of paleostress fields were established in Late Mesozoic to Cenozoic.•Strike-slip and extensional regimes alternated to dominate evolution of SE China.•Paleostress fields were related to Paleo-Pacific subduction and India-Asia collision.