Sierra Nevada paleochannel deposits detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology

The dataset contains detrital zircon U-Pb ages from sandstone samples collected from Paleogene paleochannel deposits in the Sierra Nevada and western Nevada. Samples correspond with a manuscript to be submitted to Geosphere. Data are presented from 15 new samples in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. File "New_sample_locations" shows the sample locations in decimal degrees. The other files are analytical data spreadsheets from the samples indicated in the filenames.