DOI: 10.17632/s98hbvshjd.1
title: Supporting information for "An unusually warm upper crust in the late Paleozoic North China continental arc: implications for the genesis and thermal modification of the giant Bayan Obo REE deposit

description: The dataset is the supporting information for the manuscript entitled "An unusually warm upper crust in the late Paleozoic North China continental arc: implications for the genesis and thermal modification of the giant Bayan Obo REE deposit". 
This supporting information includes:
1. SI. Supporting Information includes sample descriptions (Text S1), detail analytical methods for Laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometer (LA-ICP-MS) U-Pb dating and trace element analyses and 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating analysis (Text S2), detail description of U-Pb ages (Text S3), representative reflected-light, transmitted-light and CL images of zircons of samples for U-Pb dating and trace element analyses (Figures S1 to S8) and inverse isochron plots (Figures S9). 
2. SI. Table S01 is the LA-ICP-MS U-Pb results of zircons from the samples for thermochronometric investigations.
3. SI. Table S02 is the high-resolution 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating analytical results of hornblende from sample 16219-3BY.
4. SI. Table S03 is the high-resolution 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating analytical results of biotite from sample 16147-1BY.
5. SI. Table S04 is the high-resolution 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating analytical results of biotite from sample 07148-5GY.
6. SI. Table S05 is the high-resolution 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating analytical results of biotite from sample 17099-1GY.
7. SI. Table S06 is the high-resolution 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating analytical results of hornblende from sample 10185-4BY.
8. SI. Table S07 is the high-resolution 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating analytical results of biotite from sample 10185-4BY.
9. SI. Table S08 is the high-resolution 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating analytical results of biotite from sample 13502-1BY.
10. SI. Table S09 is the high-resolution 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating analytical results of hornblende from sample 07173-1.
11. SI. Table S10 is the high-resolution 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating analytical results of biotite from sample 07173-1.
12. SI. Table S11 is the high-resolution 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating analytical results of hornblende from sample 08603-1.
13. SI. Table S12 is the high-resolution 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating analytical results of biotite from sample 08603-1.
14. SI. Table S13 is the 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating analytical results of muscovite from sample 09219-1.
15. SI. Table S14 is the 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating analytical results of muscovite from sample 09243-2.
16. SI. Table S15 is the high-resolution 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating analytical results of muscovite from sample 17105-1GY.
17. SI. Table S16 is the high-resolution 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating analytical results of biotite from sample 17107-1GY.
18. SI. Table S17 is the high-resolution 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating analytical results of hornblende from sample 17108-1BT.
19. SI. Table S18 is the high-resolution 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating analytical results of biotite from sample 17108-1BT.