(Table 1) Apatite fission track (AFT) data of the Eisenhower Range ...

• Main Authors: Prenzel, Jannis, Lisker, Frank, Balestrieri, Maria Laura, Läufer, Andreas, Spiegel, Cornelia
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2016
• Subjects: Event label; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; Elevation of event; Area/locality; Number; Standard deviation; Fission-tracks, density, counted in stan; Fission-tracks; Fission-tracks, spontaneous, density; Fission-tracks, spontaneous; Fission-tracks, induced, density; Fission-tracks, induced; Percentage; Grains, counted/analyzed; Age, dated; Age, dated standard deviation; Fission-track length, mean; Fission-track length, mean, standard deviation; Number of observations; Goodness of fit; Diameter; Rock sample; GANOVEX_IX; Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas SPP1158; Andreas; Antarctic; Arctic; Eisenhower Range; Transantarctic Mountains; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.868499; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.868499

The Transantarctic Mountains (TAM) were one of the first regions where apatite fission track (AFT) thermochronology was applied routinely to study exhumation processes and long term landscape evolution. Pioneering publications from the region introduced or refined interpretation concepts of thermochronological data such as the break in slope in vertical age profiles as qualitative marker for the onset of accelerated rock cooling. New AFT data were compiled from vertical profiles in the Eisenhower Range, northern TAM, and compared with published data. Samples originally examined by population technique were re-analysed via the external detector technique. AFT ages increase from 32±2 Ma at an elevation of 220 m to 175±14 Ma at 2380 m. Geological evidence and thermal history modeling of the AFT data require Jurassic to Late Eocene reheating of the samples and an onset of cooling at ~35 - 30 Ma. This requires the deposition of a ~3 to 3.5 km thick sedimentary sequence on the granitic basement subsequent to ... : Supplement to: Prenzel, Jannis; Lisker, Frank; Balestrieri, Maria Laura; Läufer, Andreas; Spiegel, Cornelia (2013): The Eisenhower Range, Transantarctic Mountains: Evaluation of qualitative interpretation concepts of thermochronological data. Chemical Geology, 352, 176-187 ...