Cenozoic detrital zircon geochronological and thermochronological data from Mallorca and Menorca islands (Balearic Promontory). This data was collected in the framework of the PhD thesis by Sabí Peris Cabré, at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (http://hdl.handle.net/10803/695615). Most of the analyses were conducted in the laboratory facilities at University of Texas at Austin (USA), in the Geochron lab, and the rest in the Andalchron lab facilities from the IACT-CSIC at Granada (Spain).

METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION

1. Description of methods used for collection-generation of data: Cenozoic sandstone samples and one ignimbrite were crushed, and zircons were obtained following standard heavy mineral separation procedures (Andò, 2020). Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology analysis were conducted at the UTChron lab facilities (University of Texas at Austin, USA) and Andalchron lab at IACT-CSIC (Granada, Spain) Zircon (U-Th)/He tehrmochronology analysis were conducted at the UTChron lab facilities (University of Texas at Austin, USA), following the guidelines described by Hart et al. (2017).

For more information see methodology section in: Peris, S., Gómez-Gras, D., Booth-Rea, G., Garrido, C. J., Teixell, A., Roigé, M., Stockli, D., & Griera, A. (in prep). Cenozoic sedimentary provenance of the Balearic Promontory: New insights from detrital geochronology and thermochronology in Mallorca and Menorca. Manuscript to be submitted for publication to Gondwana Research.

References: Andò, S. (2020). Gravimetric Separation of Heavy Minerals in Sediments and Rocks. Minerals, 10(3), 273. https://doi.org/10.3390/min10030273 Hart, N. R., Stockli, D. F., Lavier, L. L., & Hayman, N. W. (2017). Thermal evolution of a hyperextended rift basin, Mauléon Basin, western Pyrenees. Tectonics, 36(6), 1103–1128. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016TC004365

1. Methods for processing the data: U-Pb zircon data were reduced using VizualAgeTM data reduction scheme for the IoliteTM on Igor ProTM software version 4 (Paton et al., 2011). Paton, C., Hellstrom, J., Paul, B., Woodhead, J., & Hergt, J. (2011). Iolite: Freeware for the visualisation and processing of mass spectrometric data. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 26(12), 2508. https://doi.org/10.1039/c1ja10172b

2. Instrument- or software- specific information needed to interpret the data: To process the U-Pb and ZHe data, statistical analyses were conducted using the detritalPy package (Sharman et al., 2018a), PAST (Hammer et al., 2001) and IsoplotR (Vermeesch, 2018) Hammer, Ø., Harper, D. A., & Ryan, P. D. (2001). PAST: Paleontological statistics software package for education and data analysis. Palaeontologia electronica, 4(1), 9. Sharman, G. R., Sharman, J. P., & Sylvester, Z. (2018). detritalPy: A Python‐based toolset for visualizing and analysing detrital geo‐thermochronologic data. The Depositional Record, 4(2), 202–215. https://doi.org/10.1002/dep2.45 Vermeesch, P. (2018). IsoplotR: A free and open toolbox for geochronology. Geoscience Frontiers, 9(5), 1479–1493. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2018.04.001

3. Instruments, calibration and standards information: For U-Pb zircon analysis, GJ1 was used as a primary standard (Jackson et al., 2004), Plesovice was a secondary standard (Sláma et al., 2008), and finally Pak1 as third standard (only at Austin) Jackson, S. E., Pearson, N. J., Griffin, W. L., & Belousova, E. A. (2004). The application of laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry to in situ U–Pb zircon geochronology. Chemical Geology, 211(1–2), 47–69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2004.06.017 Sláma, J., Košler, J., Condon, D. J., Crowley, J. L., Gerdes, A., Hanchar, J. M., Horstwood, M. S. A., Morris, G. A., Nasdala, L., Norberg, N., Schaltegger, U., Schoene, B., Tubrett, M. N., & Whitehouse, M. J. (2008). Plešovice zircon—A new natural reference material for U–Pb and Hf isotopic microanalysis. Chemical Geology, 249(1–2), 1–35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2007.11.005