earthKNOTS: A low-temperature thermochronology compilation of compilations

earthKNOTS dataset is a global "Compilation of Compilations" (CoC) of published Low-Temperature Thermochronology data in Google Earth format (.kmz).
Currently, this compilation is composed of the following 8 compilations:
(global) Herman, F., Seward, D., Valla, P.G., Carter, A., Kohn, B., Willett, S.D. and Ehlers, T.A., 2013. Worldwide acceleration of mountain erosion under a cooling climate. Nature, 504(7480), pp.423-426. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12877 (Japan) Sueoka, S, and Tagami, T., 2019. Low-temperature thermochronological database of bedrock in the Japanese Islands.Island Arc.:e12305. https://doi.org/10.1111/iar.12305(Mexico) Gray, G., Villagomez, D., Pindell, J., et al., 2021. Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic thermotectonic history of eastern, central and southern Mexico as determined through integrated thermochronology, with implications for sediment delivery to the Gulf of Mexico. in GSL, SP, The Basins, Orogens and Evolution of the Southern Gulf of Mexico and Northern Caribbean. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP504-2019-243(Antartica) Sanchez, G.,Halpin, J. A.,Gard, M., Hasterok, D., Stål, T., Raimondo, T., et al. 2021. PetroChron Antarctica: A geological database for interdisciplinary use.Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22, e2021GC010154. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GC010154(Eastern Africa) Boone, S.C., McMillan, M., Balestrieri, ML. et al., 2025. Phanerozoic thermochronology record of Afro-Arabia through space and time.Sci Data12, 444. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04767-6 (Canada) Powell, J. W., Kellett, D.A., Kohlmann, F., and McMillan, M., 2025. Canadian ThermoCHronology (CATCH) database: northern Canada compilation. 2025. Geological Survey of Canada. https://doi.org/10.4095/pdreqf905k(Central Atlantic) Charton, R., 2026. Compilation of Low-Temperature Thermochronology data supporting the publication: Phanerozoic cooling events in the continental rims of the Central Atlantic Ocean, Version 1. 4TU.ResearchData. dataset. https://doi.org/10.4121/87694187-1f52-45e2-b629-f6771ecde040.v1(global) de Kroon, A., 2026. Is there a relationship between Large Igneous Provinces and Low-Temperature Thermochronology ages? Insights from a global database. B.Sc. Thesis, TUDelft, 45p. (the csv file available in the present dataset - DATASET_2026_deKroon_4TU.csv - contains this compilation).
The following 6 compilations will be added shortly:
(China) Qiu, N. and Liu, S., 2018. Uplift and denudation in the continental area of china linked to climatic effects: evidence from apatite and zircon fission track data. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-27801-7(Brazil) Novo, T. A., Fonte-Boa, T. M. R., Rolim, J. M., and Fonseca, A. C., 2021. The state of the art of low-temperature thermochronometry in Brazil. Journal of the Geological Survey of Brazil, 4(3):239–256. https://doi.org/10.29396/jgsb.2021.v4.n3.4(Tibetan Plateau) Liu, F., Wang, M., Liu, H., and Ni, R., 2023. The cenozoic spatiotemporal exhumation of the SE Tibetan Plateau: insight from the data mining and modeling of low-temperature thermochronology. Front. Earth Sci., 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1164733(Northern Atlantic) Jess, S. Groger, H., Hendriks, B. Peace, A. and Schiffer, C., 2024. Compilation of apatite fission- track data from the northeast atlantic realm: A jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces. Lithosphere, Special (14). https://doi.org/10.2113/2023/lithosphere_2023_285(Asia) Liu, C., Liu, S., and Zhang, B., 2026. A database of low-temperature thermochronology in East Asia. Geoscience Data Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.70069
Other compilations of Low-Temperature Thermochronology data will be added as such, while newly published or digitized data will be added in the associated csv file (de Kroon, 2026) . See full reference list of all Low-Temperature Thermochronology data in their respective compilation. In case of duplicates, either the data with the most metadata is kept and if similar, data from the most recent compilation is kept.
Each data point in this CoC contains the following information:
Continent [-] (published compilation or location of study)Country [-] (published compilation or location of data point)Lat. [dd] (published compilation, sample table, or digitized from location figure)Long. [dd] (published compilation, sample table, or digitized from location figure) Elevation [m] (published compilation, extracted from global DEM based on data point location, or sample table or digitized from location figure) Reference [-] (published compilation or reference)Published [yr] (published compilation or year of publication)DataSource [-] (the reference of the compilation)Sample [-] (published compilation, sample table, or reference text/appendix)Type [-] (published compilation, sample table, or reference text/appendix)Sample name [-] (published compilation, sample table, or reference text/appendix)Lithology [-] (published compilation, sample table, or reference text/appendix)Stratigraphic age [-] (published compilation, sample table, or reference text/appendix)Age [Ma] (published compilation, result table, figure, or reference text/appendix)Age Error [Myr] (published compilation, result table, figure, or reference text/appendix)% [-] (percentage error of the LTT age)
In a following update, the DOI of the reference will be added to earthKNOTS.