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

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2018
End Date
2021

Citation

Craddock, W.H., and O'Sullivan, P.B., 2021, Apatite and zircon U/Pb and fission track geochronologic and thermochronologic data along the Fall Line of the southeastern United States: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9UAWI41.

Summary

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.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
William H Craddock, Geology, Energy & Minerals Science Center
Originator :
William H Craddock, Paul B O'Sullivan
Metadata Contact :
William H Craddock, Geology, Energy & Minerals Science Center
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Geology, Energy & Minerals Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Energy and Minerals

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Purpose

Data were obtained in order to assess the thermal history of outcropping rocks exposed along the Fall Line (boundary between Coastal Plain and Piedmont geologic provinces) of the southeastern United States.

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