This data publication includes the Supplementary Material to Trilsch et al. (2025): “Southwestern Tian Shan: 2. Timing of Cenozoic Mountain Building, Intra-montane Basin Inversion, and Relation to Lithospheric Mantel Indentation” (Tectonics; doi:…..). It comprises thermochronologic (apatite fission track and apatite and zircon (U-Th)/He), stratigraphic, and apatite Raman-spectroscopic data that allow the timing of Cenozoic mountain building in the southwestern Tian Shan of Central Asia; the southwestern Tian Shan is herein defined as that part of the Tian Shan west of the Talas-Fergana Fault Zone that is located at the junction with the Pamir and the Afghan-Tajik Basin and stretches to the Fergana Basin in the north. The refined timing provided supports the synchroneity between major Cenozoic Tian Shan mountain building and India mantle-lithosphere indentation beneath the Pamir and western Tibet, and the instantaneous transfer of shortening across a >500-km-wide foreland, facilitated by structural reactivation.
In this dataset we report exemplary, representative mineral chemistry data of two metapelite samples (PG61 and PG89) from the Modereck Nappe in the central Tauern Window. The dataset is supplemental to the publication by Groß et al. (2020). For further details on the sample mineralogy and microstructure not provided in the data description file, we refer to this publication. The data was initially collected for a thermobarometry study of the region in the framework of the priority programme SPP 4DMB, funded by the German Research Association (DFG).Sample description:Sample PG61 is an example of a chloritoid-micaschist from the Piffkar Formation. Sample coordinates are UTM Zone 33N: 337044 E, 5216460 N (WGS84, 12.85326 E, 47.081526 N). It contains quartz, phengite, chloritoid, some chlorite, ilmenite (mix of ilmenite, geikielite, Fe-oxide) and relicts of sceletal garnet (as palisades along quartz grain boundaries) and accessory allanite. Rutile occurs as inclusions in quartz and no lawsonite, kyanite or carpholite were found.Sample PG89 is an example of a garnet-micaschist from the Brennkogel Formation. Sample coordinates are UTM Zone 33N: 341888 E, 5207230 N. (WGS 84, 12.920259 E, 46.999701 N) It contains quartz, phengite, garnet, chlorite, albite, tourmaline and rutile (often with ilmenite margins). No lawsonite, paragonite, glaucophane or omphacite was found.Analytical procedure:The compositions of rock forming minerals (white mica, garnet, chloritoid and chlorite) were aquired on a JEOL JXA 8200 SuperProbe at Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften. Measurement conditions for spot analyses were 15 kV acceleration voltage, 20 nA beam current and <1 μm beam diameter. We used natural and synthetic reference materials for instrument calibration.