Thermochronology dataset for Himalaya

Dataset from the Himalaya comprises 1785 thermochronologic ages compiled from papers published through July 2022; full data sources are provided in the associated file. We have excluded some reported ages from the Siwaliks (Sub-Himalayan fold-thrust belt), as that sedimentary unit commonly yields unreset ages. We have also excluded the western and eastern syntaxis regions, where extremely rapid exhumation is driven by processes that are different from those in the main part of the Himalaya (Zeitler et al., 2014; Butler, 2019). Finally, we exclude any pre-Himalayan ages (> 60 Ma), as these are not directly linked to exhumation during Himalayan mountain building. The dataset comprises 345 white mica ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages, 236 ZFT ages, 783 AFT ages, 281 ZHe ages, and 140 AHe ages. Data are provided in an Excel worksheet.