Australian Thermochronology - 2002 and prior

This dataset contains over 1,800 apatite fission-track (AFT) analyses derived primarily from Archaean to Palaeozoic igneous rocks and their metamorphic equivalents across the Australian continent from the 1970s to 2002. It includes detailed information on sample locations, lithologies, AFT age determinations, mean confined track length measurements and thermal history models. Originally reported by Kohn et al. (2002) and Gleadow et al. (2002), these data provide key insights into the low-temperature tectono-thermal evolution of Australia’s upper crust over the past ~300 million years. Parts of this dataset were previously published in PANGAEA (DOI: 10.1594/PANGAEA.911861). The present compilation extends that earlier release by incorporating previously unpublished data, including results from MSc and PhD dissertations and regional projects conducted since 2002. In addition, newly digitised thermal history models have been integrated. References: Gleadow, Andrew JW, Barry P. Kohn, Roderick William Brown, Paul B. O'Sullivan, and A. Raza. "Fission track thermotectonic imaging of the Australian continent." Tectonophysics 349, no. 1-4 (2002): 5-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00043-4 Kohn, B.P., Gleadow, A.J.W., Brown, R.W., Gallagher, K., O'sullivan, P.B. and Foster, D.A., 2002. Shaping the Australian crust over the last 300 million years: insights from fission track thermotectonic imaging and denudation studies of key terranes. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 49(4), pp.697-717. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-0952.2002.00942.x