Supporting information for " First high-precision U–Pb CA–ID–TIMS age of the Chuanlinggou Formation, North China Craton: Implications for global correlations of black shales and the Statherian/Calymmian boundary"

This supporting information includes detail analytical methods for U–Pb CA–ID–TIMS geochronology and total organic carbon (TOC) content (Text S1), U–Pb CA–ID–TIMS isotopic data for volcanic tuff from the Chuanlinggou Formation, Kuancheng County (Tables S1), total organic carbon (TOC) concentrations of black shales from the Chuanlinggou Formation, Kuancheng County (Tables S2), zircon U-Pb ages of tuffaceous ash beds within the ca. 1640 Ma black shales in the North China and North Australian cratons (Table S3), summary of the ca. 1640 Ma LIPs and associated magmatic rocks in different cratons (Table S4), stratigraphic columns of the Chuanlinggou Formation in the Yanliao Basin (Figure S1) and cross section of the upper Chuanlinggou Formation in Shenxianling-Wengjiazhuang, Kuancheng County (Figure S2).