This is a concept/ phenomenon I find really cool. As mountain ranges grow by near- or far-field plate convergence, the added weight of the range flexes the earth’s crust downwards, analogous to placing a heavy weight in the center of a 2×4 that is supported at either end. At the leading edge of the mountain range this downward flexing of the crust creates a foreland basin, where sediments eroded off of the mountain range get deposited.
Now imagine this- the mountain range is growing and expanding laterally, and propagates into its foreland basin. What happens next is that sediments/ sedimentary rocks that were once part of this basin are now thrusted/ folded/ deformed and incorporated into the growing mountain range. So rocks that were once a basin are now mountains. In other words- the basin was inverted.
Here’s a picture of exactly that. This is the town of Jety-Oguz, on the south side of the Issyk-Kul Basin in northern Kyrgyzstan. To the south (left in the photo), the growing Terskey mountains are propagating northwards into the basin. The red sediments in the photo are late Cenzoic foreland basin deposits, now uplifted and tilted northwards as a direct result of the growing Terskey range.
Here are links to the image for different desktop resolutions (by aspect ratio), pictures open in a new window: