Thermochronology has made increasing methodological progress in recent years and has been applied to a wide range of fields, in particular the elucidation of the thermal history of the shallow crust, e.g. mountain building, fault activity, and surface processes. The main methodologies include fission-track, Ar–Ar, U–Th/He, U–Pb, and trapped-charge dating, and the field covered by thermochronology is becoming increasingly broad in terms of time, space, and temperature. This special issue focuses on the latest results in the field of thermochronology, covering a wide range of basic and applied research related to thermochronology. It will be open for all submissions within its scope.

This special issue is a collection of technical notes that demonstrate and discuss methods used to interpret thermochronologic data sets. Our goal is to provide an accessible, community-generated collection of modelling techniques, tools, and strategies; it is a direct response to the recent articulation of the need for such resources in the community of low-temperature thermochronology. We envision that these brief papers will cover topics including modeling best-practices, reporting templates, sensitivity tests, new features in established modeling tools, and strategies for working with different types of data and datasets. In other words, these Technical Notes are an opportunity to publish the details of data interpretation methods that are commonly relegated to the supplemental materials of research papers or more informal – and less accessible – communications. Their brief, stand-alone format should be appealing to write as an author and to read as a geoscientist learning about or keeping up with methodological advances.

We emphasize that although GChron Technical Notes are peer-reviewed, citable contributions, they "are not fully self-contained research studies; instead they report new developments in or novel aspects of methods, techniques, or tools that are relevant for scientific investigations within the journal scope. Manuscripts of this type should be short and concise (e.g., a few pages only), but they may optionally link to data sets, computer code, or other technical information as electronic supplements".

This special issue is open, and we welcome contributions within its scope.

Thermochronology has made increasing methodological progress in recent years and has been applied to a wide range of fields, in particular the elucidation of the thermal history of the shallow crust, e.g. mountain building, fault activity, and surface processes. The main methodologies include fission-track, Ar–Ar, U–Th/He, U–Pb, and trapped-charge dating, and the field covered by thermochronology is becoming increasingly broad in terms of time, space, and temperature. This special issue focuses on the latest results in the field of thermochronology, covering a wide range of basic and applied research related to thermochronology. It will be open for all submissions within its scope.

This special issue is a collection of technical notes that demonstrate and discuss methods used to interpret thermochronologic data sets. Our goal is to provide an accessible, community-generated collection of modelling techniques, tools, and strategies; it is a direct response to the recent articulation of the need for such resources in the community of low-temperature thermochronology. We envision that these brief papers will cover topics including modeling best-practices, reporting templates, sensitivity tests, new features in established modeling tools, and strategies for working with different types of data and datasets. In other words, these Technical Notes are an opportunity to publish the details of data interpretation methods that are commonly relegated to the supplemental materials of research papers or more informal – and less accessible – communications. Their brief, stand-alone format should be appealing to write as an author and to read as a geoscientist learning about or keeping up with methodological advances.

We emphasize that although GChron Technical Notes are peer-reviewed, citable contributions, they "are not fully self-contained research studies; instead they report new developments in or novel aspects of methods, techniques, or tools that are relevant for scientific investigations within the journal scope. Manuscripts of this type should be short and concise (e.g., a few pages only), but they may optionally link to data sets, computer code, or other technical information as electronic supplements".

This special issue is open, and we welcome contributions within its scope.