Exploiting individual U–Pb zircon ages and Ti-in-zircon crystallization temperature data to identify high zircon-production events in the Xolapa terrane

• Main Authors: T.A. Peña-Alonso, G.P. Villalobos-Escobar, R.M. Molina-Garza
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2019-06-01
• Series: Data in Brief
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340919302847

In this article we present a compilation of U–Pb zircon ages of the whole Xolapa terrane in coastal southern Mexico (dataset 1) as a curved line, obtained from plotting individual zircon grains versus its corresponding age. We identified five low-slope segments of the curved line, each one assigned to a high zircon-production (or preservation) event (HZE). Crystallization temperatures (CT) from Ti-in-zircon geothermometer data on Xolapa rocks were estimated separately from individual zircon grains (dataset 2), in order to compare CT ranges corresponding to each HZE identified. Datasets 1 and 2 are discussed for tectonic implications in the research article “The opening and closure of the Jurassic-Cretaceous Xolapa basin, southern Mexico” Peña-Alonso et al., 2017.