Extended Data Table 3.

Exhumation characteristics of thermochronology sites spanning the Central Plateau of Southern Africa

Thermal history models of the sites are from the references provided^{5,25,29,31,44,48,50,53,55,81,82,117}. Note that maxdTdt (bf) is the maximum rate of temperature drop in °C over a 2-Myr rolling window using the best fit (bf) curve and $t_{\max }\frac{\mathrm{d}T}{\mathrm{d}t}$ denotes the timing of maxdTdt (bf) in Ma, presented as a negative value. TE refers to total exhumation (note that these values are sampled to account for uncertainty in geothermal gradients used; see Methods). t_min, t_mid and t_max are the minimum, midpoint and maximum times of maximum cooling accounting for available (published) model data and uncertainty estimates. More details are provided in Methods.

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