Apatite and zircon U/Pb and fission track geochronologic and thermochronologic data along the Fall Line of the southeastern United States

Description

This data release contains apatite and zircon U/Pb and fission track data for six samples collected along the Fall Line of the southeastern United States, from Virginia to the Georgia-South Carolina border. The data resolve phases of rapid exhumational cooling in the Permo-Triassic, additional cooling in the Jurassic-Early Cretaceous and slower cooling since the middle of the Cretaceous. The data are also compatible with an episode of burial/magmatic heating in the Triassic-Jurassic. Overall, these data may explain the lack of preserved Upper Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous strata beneath onshore areas of the southeastern United States.

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Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9UAWI41
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.6040d5f9d34eb1203118743a.xml

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  • city-of-richmond
  • plutonic-rock
  • zircon
  • apatite
  • usgs-6040d5f9d34eb1203118743a
  • uranium-lead-analysis
  • halifax-county
  • richland-county
  • nash-county
  • harnett-county
  • columbia-county
  • fission-track-dating

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