A database of detrital zircon geochronology ages of Cambrian to Paleogene deposits in South China

Complications of detrital zircons databases provide a means for statistically analysing a variety of significant geological problems. In this work, we tried to collect a database about the South China Phanerozoic detrital zircon geochronology data. The data statistics of this paper rely on the OneSediment Working Group of The Deep-time Digital Earth program (DDE). By November 2022, the database contains a total of 699 samples with 55,532 U-Pb ages and 3,770 effective Hf isotope data, from 130 papers. Abundant information including reference title, sample ID, locality, rock type, research institution, GPS coordinates, U-Pb ages, eHf(t) values, etc., have been involved in our database, and all data can be downloaded from DDE Data Publish & Repository website, . Through the integrated data, we can improve the previous studies and avoid the waste of resources caused by a large number of repeated studies.