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, ε_Hf(t) values, etc., have been involved in our database, and all data can be downloaded from DDE Data Publish & Repository website, https://repository.deep-time.org/. Through the integrated data, we can improve the previous studies and avoid the waste of resources caused by a large number of repeated studies.