Open Research Datasets – Testing Mantle Convection Simulations with Paleobiology and Other Stratigraphic Observations: Examples from Western North America

Data supporting the findings of "Testing Mantle Convection Simulations with Paleobiology and Other Stratigraphic Observations: Examples from Western North America" by Victoria M. Fernandes, Gareth G. Roberts and Fred D. Richards. Further details about these data can be found in the main manuscript and accompanying Supporting Information. This research was funded by NERC Large Grant MC2: Mantle Convection Constrained (NE/T012595/1). The datasets contained in this repository:1) Uplift constraints from youngest outcropping marine to terrestrial stratigraphic transitions, as described in Fernandes et al. (2019) JGR Earth Surface (Figure 1; MarineTerrestrialTransition_Fernandes_etal2019.txt)2) Digitised sediment isopachs from Roberts & Kirschbaum (1995), USGS Professional Paper 1561 (Supplementary Figure S3; Roberts_Kirschbaum_1995_isopachs.zip)3) Air-loaded subsidence grids (Supplementary Figure S4; Subsidence.zip)4) Temperature grids at 25 km depth intervals, from 50–400 km depth, generated from the SLNAAFSA hybrid Vs model of Hoggard et al. (2020), Nature Geoscience (Supplementary Figure S6; Temperature_grids_txt.zip)