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稀有气体因其化学惰性以及在不同来源地质体中的同位素组成差异很大,在研究成矿流体来源、演化和壳-幔相互作用过程中具有非常重要的意义。另外,由于~4He、40Ar是放射成因子体同位素,具有年代积累效应,因此,它们常被用于同位素测年。本文简要回顾了流体包裹体中稀有气体同位素的后生影响和样品、分析方法选择注意事项,以及近年来稀有气体同位素在成矿流体示踪,40K-40Ar、40Ar-39Ar定年及(U-Th)/He定年方面的研究进展。已有研究证实流体包裹体中的稀有气体可能受后期扩散丢失、后生叠加和同位素分馏的影响,要根据目的选择不同的分析方法;稀有气体同位素可以示踪不同类型矿床的流体来源、演化及壳-幔相互作用、稀有气体同位素与卤素联合运用可以用来指示流体和盐度来源、演化过程以及矿物沉淀机制等,~3He/热的研究可以追溯流体的热源及其运移方式;流体包裹体40Ar-39Ar可以用于矿床直接定年,表生含钾矿物的40K-40Ar、40Ar-39Ar定年以及锆石、磷灰石和铁氧化物(U-Th)/He定年可为矿床及氧化带的形成时间、矿床形成后的抬升、剥露历史、古气候演化等重大地质问题讨论提供大量有意义的信息。 相似文献
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《Comptes Rendus Geoscience》2007,339(14-15):937-945
The origin of the Earth's atmosphere can be constrained by the study of noble gases in oceanic basalts. If it is clear that the mantle is degassed and formed part of the present atmosphere, it has been proposed that an important subduction of atmospheric noble gases in the mantle occurred during Earth's history, altering the primordial signature of the solid Earth. This subduction process has been suggested on the basis of the measurements of light xenon isotopes in CO2 well gases. Moreover, the fact that the 38Ar/36Ar ratio is atmospheric in all oceanic basalts, even for uncontaminated samples (e.g. with high 20Ne/22Ne), may also suggest that a massive subduction of atmospheric argon occurred, if the primitive Earth had a solar-like 38Ar/36Ar. This also implies that the atmosphere suffered a massive gas loss accompanied by mass fractionation (e.g. hydrodynamic escape) after mantle degassing or that a late veneer with an atmospheric composition occurred. Such a hypothesis is explored for rare gases, by developing a model in which degassing and subduction of atmospheric noble gases started ∼4.4 Ga ago. In the model, both radiogenic and non-radiogenic isotopic ratios are used (e.g. 38Ar/36Ar and 40Ar/36Ar; 124Xe/130Xe and 129Xe/130Xe) to constrain the subduction flux and the degassing parameters. It is shown that subduction and massive contamination of the entire mantle is possible, but implies that the 40Ar/36Ar and the 129Xe/130Xe ratios were higher in the past than today, which is not observed in Archean samples. It also implies that the sediments and the altered oceanic crust did not loose their noble gases during subduction or that the contaminated mantle wedge is mixed by the convective mantle. Moreover, such a model has to apply to the oceanic island source, since this later shows the same signature of argon and xenon non-radiogenic isotopic ratios. A scenario where the isotopic compositions of the argon and xenon were settled before or during accretion is therefore preferred to the subduction. 相似文献
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We have measured the composition of He, Ne and Ar in the glassy rim of a fresh oceanic basalt from the East Pacific Rise. Three splits of the sample were subjected to neutron irradiation prior to analysis to investigate the noble gas release as a function of different neutron doses. The shapes of the observed 39Ar-40Ar degassing profiles depend critically on the irradiation dose due to a severe redistribution of excess 40Ar. This shows that the application of the 39Ar-40Ar method for dating of glassy samples requires the utmost care.Including the He and Ne results from the irradiated specimens, it was possible to determine the concentrations of Li and Mg and to estimate upper limits for Na and F in addition to the concentrations of K, Ca and Cl which are measured routinely as a byproduct of the 39Ar-40Ar dating method. This provides a useful extension of the 39Ar-40Ar technique since it may help to identify the outgassing sites during stepwise heating experiments. Furthermore it allows one to study the diffusion behavior of He and Ne isotopes artificially produced during irradiation. In our samples the activation energies of 3He and 21Ne tend to increase with growing neutron doses. 相似文献
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尽管40Ar和36Ar之间质量相差达1/10,但是受放射性成因40Ar的影响,一般认为难以进行氩同位素分馏研究.本文通过自行设计的一套氩扩散迁移实验分析系统,对比研究了氩在不同的扩散介质条件下扩散迁移前后氩同位素组成变化情况,证实氩在致密的扩散介质条件下以分子流形式从一个储库向另一个储库的迁移过程中,由于36Ar和40Ar的迁移速率不同,扩散后的40Ar/36Ar值比扩散前的值要小,也即发生了氩同位素分馏.氩同位素分馏的特征表现为最初的一段时间内分馏程度逐步增强,在一定时间后,由于储库之间压力逐渐达到平衡,分馏程度逐步减小.研究自然界中存在的氩同位素分馏,不仅可以判别油气田中油气运移的方向、增强油气远景评价和地球化学勘探,而且对深源岩浆的起源、迁移等研究也可提供新的研究思路和途径. 相似文献
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Thomas J. Bernatowicz 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1981,76(1):84-91
This work reports the results of noble gas (Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe) analyses of accidental mantle xenoliths from San Carlos, Arizona. Except for the addition of radiogenic 40Ar and mass fractionation effects, the isotopic structures of these gases are indistinguishable from atmospheric composition. The absence of 129Xe excesses in these rocks may reflect indirect mixing of atmospheric gases with the source region of the xenoliths. The dominant influence on the noble gas abundances in the San Carlos xenoliths appears to have been diffusive gas loss, which may have occurred in a mantle metamorphic event or during contact with the host basanite magma. Evidence is presented for the partitioning of significant amounts of the heavy noble gases into fluid inclusions in the xenolith minerals; the proportion of each gas in the inclusions increases with increasing atomic weight of the gas, possibly reflecting solubility effects. The noble gases are present in greater concentration in pyroxenes than in olivine, similar to the behavior of other incompatible elements. 相似文献
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Noble gas elemental and isotopic abundances were measured in steam from four wells in the Baca geothermal reservoir located in the Valles Caldera, New Mexico. The ratio and noble gas elemental abundances relative to 36Ar are all strongly correlated with 1/36Ar, the inverse of the argon content. Ratios of (α,n)-produced 21Ne1 and radiogenic 40Ar1 to total 4He (dominantly radiogenic) are nearly constant at 2.1 × 10?8 and 0.20, respectively. The ratio covers a restricted range of 3.9 to 4.8 times atmospheric. The high 3He content of the gas indicates the presence of a helium component ultimately derived from the mantle. Kr and Xe isotopic compositions are close to atmospheric; excess 129Xe1 is <0.25% of the total 129Xe.The high degree of linear correlation among the various noble gas results strongly suggests that the Baca reservoir contains two distinct fluids that are produced in varying proportions from individual wells. The noble gases in fluid A (~2900 mg/1 C1) are air-like, but with lighter gases and isotopes preferentially enriched. The fluid A 36Ar content is low, only 13% that of 10°C air-saturated water (ASW). The second fluid, B (~ 1700 mg/1 C1), is the dominant carrier of the radiogenic and mantle-derived gases. The heavier non-radiogenic gases are preferentially enriched in fluid B, and its 36Ar content is very low, only 5–7% ASW. The source of the noble gases in fluid A is tentatively ascribed to leaching of the relatively young (<1.4 m.y.) volcanic Bandelier Tuff. The radiogenic gases and mantle-derived helium in fluid B suggest a deeper source, possibly including gases escaping from a magma. 相似文献
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The abundances and isotopic compositions of Helium and Argon have been analyzed in a suite of fresh spinel peridotite xenoliths in Cenozoic basalts from the eastern North China Craton (NCC) by step-wise heating experiments, to investigate the nature of noble gas reservoirs in the subcontinental lithospheric mantle beneath this region. The xenoliths include one harzburgite collected from Hebi in the interior of the NCC, two lherzolites from Hannuoba at the northern margin of the craton, and three lherzolites from Shanwang and Nushan on the eastern margin. 3He/4He ratios in most of the xenoliths are similar to those of mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB) or slightly lower (2–10.5 Ra, where Ra is the 3He/4He ratio of the atmosphere), suggesting mixing of MORB-like and radiogenic components. One olivine separate from Nushan has a helium value of 25.3 Ra, probably suggesting cosmogenic 3He addition. The 40Ar/36Ar ratios vary from atmospheric value (296) to 1625, significantly lower than the MORB value. Available data of the peridotite xenoliths indicate the He and Ar isotopic systematics of the mantle reservoirs beneath the NCC can be interpreted as mixtures of at least three end-members including MORB-like, radiogenic and atmospheric components. We suggest that the MORB-like noble gases were derived from the underlying asthenosphere during mantle upwelling, whereas the radiogenic and recycled components probably were incorporated into the lithospheric mantle during circum-craton subduction of oceanic crust. Available data suggest that the MORB-like fluids are better preserved in the interior of the NCC, whereas the radiogenic ones are more prevalent at the margins. The Paleo-Asian ocean subduction system probably was responsible for the enriched and recycled noble gas signatures on the northern margin of the craton, while the Pacific subduction system could account for the observed He–Ar isotopic signatures beneath the eastern part. Therefore, integration of helium and argon isotopes reflects heterogeneous metasomatism in the lithospheric mantle and demonstrates the critical importance of lithospheric mantle modification related to both circum-craton subduction of oceanic crust and asthenospheric upwelling beneath the eastern NCC. 相似文献
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Despite their great importance in low-temperature geochemistry, diffusion coefficients of noble gas isotopes in liquid water (D) have been measured only for the major isotopes of helium, neon, krypton and xenon. Data on the diffusion coefficients of minor noble gas isotopes are essentially non-existent and so typically have been estimated by a kinetic-theory model in which D varies as the inverse square root of the isotopic mass (m): D ∝ m−0.5. To examine the validity of the kinetic-theory model, we performed molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the diffusion of noble gases in ambient liquid water. Our simulation results agree with available experimental data on the solvation structure and diffusion coefficients of the major noble gas isotopes and reveal for the first time that the isotopic mass-dependence of all noble gas self-diffusion coefficients has the power-law form D ∝ m−β with 0 < β < 0.2. Thus our results call into serious question the widespread assumption that the ‘square-root’ model can be applied to estimate the kinetic fractionation of noble gas isotopes caused by diffusion in ambient liquid water. To illustrate the importance of this finding, we used the diffusion coefficients determined in our MD simulations to reconsider the geochemical modeling of 20Ne/22Ne and 36Ar/40Ar isotopic ratios in three representative hydrologic studies. Our new modeling results indicate that kinetic isotopic fractionation by diffusion may play a significant role in noble gas transport processes in groundwater. 相似文献
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Ultra-high pressure eclogite/amphibolite grade metamorphism of the Dora Maira Massif in the western Alps is a well established
and intensively studied event. However, the age of peak metamorphism and early cooling remains controversial. The 40Ar-39Ar step-heating and laser spot ages from high pressure phengites yield plateau ages as old as 110 Ma which have been interpreted
as the time of early cooling after the high pressure event. Recent U/Pb and Sm/Nd results challenge this assertion, indicating
a much younger age for the event, around 45 Ma, and hence a radically different timing for the tectonic evolution of the western
Alps. In a new approach to the problem, samples from the undeformed Hercynian metagranite, Brossasco, were studied using an
ultra-violet laser ablation microprobe technique for 40Ar-39Ar dating. The new technique allowed selective in situ analysis, at a spatial resolution of 50 μm, of quartz, phengite, biotite
and K-feldspar. The results demonstrate the frequent occurrence of excess argon with high 40Ar-36Ar ratios (1000–10000) and a strong relationship between apparent ages and metamorphic textures. The highest excess argon
ratios are always associated with high closure temperature minerals or large diffusion domains within single mineral phases.
The best interpretation of this relationship seems to be that excess argon was incorporated in all phases during the high
pressure event, then mixed with an atmospheric component during rapid cooling and retrogression, producing a wide range of
argon concentrations and 40Ar/36Ar ratios. Step-heating analysis of minerals with this mixture would produce linear arrays on a 36Ar/40Ar versus 39Ar/40Ar correlation diagram, leading to geologically meaningless plateau ages, older than the true closure age. In the present
case, some ages in the range 60–110 Ma could be explained by the presence of excess argon incorporated around 40–50 Ma ago.
Similar results found in other high pressure terrains in the Alps may reconcile the argon geochronometer with other systems
such as Rb/Sr, U/Pb or Sm/Nd. This study therefore calls for an increasing use of high resolution in situ sampling techniques
to clarify the meaning of 40Ar/39Ar ages in many high pressure terrains.
Received: 6 January 1994/Accepted: 4 April 1995 相似文献
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A redetermination of the isotopic abundances of atmospheric Ar 总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5
Jee-Yon Lee Kurt Marti Kenji Kawamura Hee-Soo Yoo Jin Seog Kim 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2006,70(17):4507-4512
Atmospheric argon measured on a dynamically operated mass spectrometer with an ion source magnet, indicated systematically larger 40Ar/36Ar ratios compared to the generally accepted value of Nier [Nier A.O., 1950. A redetermination of the relative abundances of the isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and potassium. Phys. Rev. 77, 789-793], 295.5 ± 0.5, which has served as the standard for all isotopic measurements in geochemistry and cosmochemistry. Gravimetrically prepared mixtures of highly enriched 36Ar and 40Ar were utilized to redetermine the isotopic abundances of atmospheric Ar, using a dynamically operated isotope ratio mass spectrometer with minor modifications and special gas handling techniques to avoid fractionation. A new ratio 40Ar/36Ar = 298.56 ± 0.31 was obtained with a precision of 0.1%, approximately 1% higher than the previously accepted value. Combined with the 38Ar/36Ar (0.1885 ± 0.0003) measured with a VG5400 noble gas mass spectrometer in static operation, the percent abundances of 36Ar, 38Ar, and 40Ar were determined to be 0.3336 ± 0.0004, 0.0629 ± 0.0001, and 99.6035 ± 0.0004, respectively. We calculate an atomic mass of Ar of 39.9478 ± 0.0002. Accurate Ar isotopic abundances are relevant in numerous applications, as the calibration of the mass spectrometer discrimination. 相似文献
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年轻火山岩的定年:进展与问题 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
年轻火山岩定年对人类的起源与进化、地质年表建立、古环境演化、火山灾害、岩浆演化及地球动力学等研究非常重要。由于年轻样品放射性成因子体积累较少、大气氩含量高,微量的过剩氩极难识别,使得年轻火山岩及其沉积地层高精度定年一直是地质年代学中最具挑战性的课题之一。过去几年,年轻火山岩定年在技术上的进展主要体现在定年精度和准确度不断提升,尤其是利用新型多接收稀有气体质谱对单颗粒样品进行逐步升温~(40)Ar/~(39)Ar定年,是方法学上最重要的进展之一。本文总结了年轻火山岩~(40)Ar/~(39)Ar定年的现状、影响因素和相关定年技术及应用,以引起大家的关注和思考,共同提高我国年轻火山岩定年的技术水平。利用新型多接收质谱和创新的实验方法,通过对全球重要火山喷发事件和年轻国际标准样的研究,广泛开展实验室间的对比是提高国内~(40)Ar/~(39)Ar年代学水平并在年轻火山岩定年中取得突破的重要途径,也是当前~(40)Ar/~(39)Ar年代学研究的重要方向。 相似文献
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One hundred natural gas samples of different geological periods collected from various localities were determined for their nitrogen, helium and argon contents as well as the isotopic composition of argon. The ratio Ar40/Ar36 was found to be from 305 to 9,255. A current heliumargon chronological formula for calculating natural gas ages was corrected. Instead, based upon the chronological accumulating effect of radiogenic Ar40, an Ar40-Ar39 empirical formula for calculating natural gas ages has been proposed. It can be seen from the ratio of nitrogen to atmospheric argon that most of the nitrogen in these natural gases could not be derived from atmospheric nitrogen. The range of radiogenic He/Ar40 is from 5.19 to 23. 18, and that for most samples from 7 to 14. The He/Ar40 ratios of Sinian samples are from 5.39 to 6.14, indicating their derivation from the deep interior of the earth. It should be noted that the Ar40/Ar36 ratio shows a general trend of approaching the atmospheric value from the Sinian to the Tertiary period, or from old to young in geological age, mirroring, to a great extent, the evolutionary tendency of the rare gas isotopic composition of natural gases with continuous degassing of the earth. 相似文献
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应用Argus多接收稀有气体质谱仪准确测量空气的Ar同位素组成 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
稀有气体质谱仪准确测量氩同位素组成是Ar-Ar法高精度定年的前提,目前测量氩同位素主要应用单接收或多接收质谱仪,其中多接收稀有气体质谱仪在数据准确性和重现性等方面具备优势。本文研究了Argus多接收稀有气体质谱仪应用于测量Ar同位素过程中一些主要因素对测量结果准确度和重现性的影响情况。结果表明,整套系统在静态模式下不同时间段的本底值极低,不影响测定;仪器电子倍增器的接收效率优于99.67%,可显著提高Ar低含量样品测量精度,当40Ar信号强度低于0.5 V时,用电子倍增器测量40Ar/36Ar组成的标准偏差仅为0.11%,而用法拉第杯测量40Ar/36Ar组成的标准偏差为0.53%;仪器的质量歧视效应可通过多次循环测量并采用指数定律获得稳定的质量歧视校正因子(此值相对标准偏差为0.0434%),实现对Ar同位素组成的准确校正。本文以测量空气中的氩同位素组成为例,证明了Argus多接收稀有气体质谱仪的测试效率比单个接收器跳峰方式的测试效率高,测试结果更精确,因此适合年轻样品或含钾量极低的样品的Ar-Ar高精度定年工作。 相似文献
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Shock-effects on the K-Ar system of plagioclase feldspar and the age of anorthosite inclusions from North-Eastern Minnesota 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Artificial shock pressures up to 52.5 GPa have no influence on the K-Ar system of plagioclase feldspar. The 40Ar-39Ar analysis of feldspar (labradorite An67 from anorthosite of North-Eastern Minnesota) shocked up to 45 GPa—in vacuo, to prevent massive entrapment of atmospheric argon-shows that the age spectra and the argon diffusion properties remain unaltered. Similar feldspar samples (labradorite An51 from Nain, Labrador), shocked in air up to 52.5 GPa and dated by the conventional K-Ar method, also yield the same age as unshocked samples but with a higher atmospheric argon contribution. The Minnesota anorthosite has an 40Ar-39Ar age of 1075 ± 10 m.y. No information on a possible previous history of the anorthosite became apparent. 相似文献
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The argon isotope systematics of vein-quartz samples with two different K-reservoirs have been evaluated in detail. Potassium is hosted by ultra-high-salinity fluid inclusions in quartz samples from the Eloise and Osborne iron-oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) deposits of the Mt Isa Inlier, Australia. In contrast, K is hosted by accidentally trapped mica within lower-salinity fluid inclusions of a sample selected from the Railway Fault, 13 km south of the Mt Isa copper mine, Australia. Imprecise apparent ages have been obtained for all of the samples studied and conclusively demonstrate that quartz fluid inclusions are retentive to Ar and have not leaked over billions of years. IOCG samples that host K in fluid inclusions only, have K/Cl values of <1 and the ages obtained represent the maximum ages for mineralization. In contrast, the Railway Fault samples that include accidentally trapped mica have K/Cl values of ?1. Excess 40ArE plus Cl hosted by fluid inclusions, and radiogenic 40ArR plus K, are strongly correlated in these samples and define a plane in 3D 40Ar-36Ar-K-Cl space. In this case, the plane yields an ‘excess 40ArE’ corrected age of ∼1030 Ma that is 100’s of Ma younger than nearby Cu-mineralization at Mt Isa. The age is interpreted to reflect 40Ar-loss from the accidentally trapped mica into the surrounding fluid inclusions, and is not related to the samples’ age of formation. The initial 40Ar/36Ar value of fluid inclusions is widely used to provide information on fluid origin. For the IOCG samples that host K in fluid inclusions only, the initial 40Ar/36Ar values are close to the measured values at every temperature of stepped heating experiments. For samples that include accidentally trapped mica, the correction for post-entrapment radiogenic 40ArR production is significant. Furthermore, because 39ArK present in accidentally trapped mica crystals is released at different temperatures to radiogenic 40ArR lost to the surrounding fluid inclusions, intra-sample 40Ar/36Ar variation cannot be reliably documented. The results demonstrate that noble gas analysis is readily applicable to Proterozoic, or older, samples but that if K-mineral impurities are present within quartz the abundance of K must be determined before calculation of mean 40Ar/36Ar values that are representative of the samples’ initial composition. 相似文献
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22 hornblende K-Ar ages and 10 39Ar-40Ar spectra were obtained for hornblende garbenschists from the Western Tauern Window. The post-kinematic amphiboles were produced during the late Alpine prograde metamorphism (6–10 kb and 500–570° C). Two nearly potassiumfree cummingtonites rimming hornblende yield K-Ar ages of 120 Ma, while the 20 tschermakitic hornblendes scatter between 17 and 37 Ma. The reason for this scatter is excess Ar, possibly incorporated into amphiboles during healing of fractures, now traceable by trails of fluid inclusions. Excess Ar is semiquantitatively corrected for by combining cogenetic hornblende and cummingtonite with K-Ar isochrons. It can be quantified in 4 out of 10 hornblendes by 39Ar-40Ar stepwise heating experiments. Ages of 18–20 Ma result for corrected hornblendes. The retentivity of 40Ar, after correction for excess, shows no correlation with chemistry within the narrow compositional range observed; rather, it shows intriguing correlations with irregularities in Ca/K spectra, pointing to a microstructurally controlled mechanism for Ar loss. This observation leads to a critical evaluation of the closure temperature constant, which apparently depends on an incompletely known number of mineralogical and environmental parameters. In particular those 39Ar-40Ar release spectra which yield low temperature steps with younger ages than the plateaus are not interpretable in terms of a synchronous closure. This gives evidence that loss of radiogenic isotopes proceeds by a more complex mechanism than simple volume diffusion through isotropic media. 相似文献
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Stephen P Smith 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1984,48(5):1033-1041
Gabbro and diorite from the Skaergaard layered igneous intrusion contain noble gases which are mixtures of atmospheric and juvenile components. Atmospheric noble gases predominate in samples that have undergone extensive oxygen isotope exchange with meteoric-hydrothermal water. The source of the atmospheric noble gas component is inferred to be the hydrothermal circulation system. A juvenile component with and containing fission xenon is also present This component predominates in samples showing unaltered magmatic oxygen isotope compositions. Neon of atmospheric isotopic composition is associated with the juvenile radiogenic 40Ar and fission xenon. The source of this second noble gas component may be either the crustal country rock or the upper mantle. If the neon is juvenile primordial neon from a mantle source region, terrestrial primordial is the same as atmospheric to within 4%. However, subduction of atmospheric noble gases into the upper mantle may provide an alternate source of neon and other noble gases in the mantle. 相似文献
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Earth’s atmosphere is used as a standard reference gas for mass spectrometric determinations of argon (Ar) isotopes used principally in geochronology. There are three published independent determinations of the Ar isotope composition of modern atmosphere that differ subtly. We have made new high-precision measurements of Ar isotope ratios of five different sources of air using a high-sensitivity multi-collector noble gas mass spectrometer in order to distinguish between them. The isotope ratios, corrected only for backgrounds, reside on a inverse square-root mass law fractionation line that passes through the air value proposed by Lee et al. [Lee J. Y., Marti K., Severinghaus J. P., Kawamura K., Yoo H. S., Lee J. B. and Kim J. S. (2006) A redetermination of the isotopic abundances of atmospheric Ar. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta70, 4507-4512]. They are distinct from both the other proposed compositions and provide the first independent confirmation of the atmospheric Ar isotope composition. We suggest that the revised values should now be in routine employment. 相似文献
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The Northwest Shelf of the Delaware Basin, SE New Mexico is the site of several large and productive oil and gas fields. The most productive reservoirs are located in the late Pennsylvanian Morrow and early Permian Abo formations. Production from the latter more important play is predominately from fluvial Abo red beds of the Pecos Slope Field. The oxidizing conditions implied by the reddish color of the formation require an external hydrocarbon source. To test the existing migration model for the region and constrain the location of potential hydrocarbon sources, we measured the elemental and isotopic composition of noble gases produced along with the hydrocarbons. We found the hydrocarbons to be highly enriched in radiogenic 4He, 40*Ar and nucleogenic 21*Ne [F(4He) = 44,000-250,000; 40Ar/36Ar = 400-3145; 21Ne/22Ne = 0.044-0.071]. The greatest enrichments occur in the Pecos Slope gas fields. The hydrocarbons also contain three independent nonradiogenic noble gas components each with an atmospheric isotopic composition. One component is most likely air-saturated water (ASW). The second component is enriched in the heavy noble gases [F(130Xe) > 8.5] and is derived from the hydrocarbon sources. The third component is enriched in Ne [F(20Ne) > 0.8] that we believe is degassed from sources within the reservoirs. This component is correlated with but decoupled from the dominant source of radiogenic 4He and 40*Ar. Very high concentrations of 4He (up to ∼1% by volume) in the Pecos slope reservoirs require a source external to the reservoirs, such as the underlying Precambrian basement granites and sedimentary equivalents. Structural buckles cutting through the Pecos field may act as high flux vertical pathways for the radiogenic 4He. If the hydrocarbons in the Pecos slope fields have migrated northward from the deeper Delaware Basin, as suggested by compositional trends, then perhaps the buckles also play an important role in the distribution and filling of the Pecos slope reservoirs. 相似文献
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The noble gas isotopic composition and content data of 2 alkali basalts, 3 Iherzolite xenoliths and one clinopyroxene megacryst from the Kuandian region have confirmed the occurrence of a fractionation of noble gases during magmatism. Light noble gases such as He and Ne are high in mobility and appear to be incompatible as compared with heavy ones ( such as Kr and Xe). Therefore, light noble gases are abundant in volcanics, especially in the volcanics with bubbles; lherzolite xenoliths have relatively high heavy noble gases. The clinopyroxene megacryst has the lowest abundance of noble gases, probably due to its high P-T origin. Noble gas isotopic composition of the clinopyroxene megacryst reveals that the mantle source beneath the Kuandian area has an MORB-like reservoir with^3 He/^4He ratio of—10 Ra(Ra: atmospheric^3 He/^4He ratio) and^40 Ar/^36 Ar ratio of 345.6. The Iherzolite xenoliths possess moderate^3 He/^4He ratios of 2.59 -4.53 Ra, reflecting the loss of primary helium during rock deformation or metasomatism caused by enriched mantle fluids during the up-lifting. The alkali volcanics have very low^3 He/^4 He ratios(0.47—0.61 Ra),indicating a contribution of radiogenic^4 He, probably having resulted from crust contamination. Most of the samples have excess^21 Ne and^22 Ne as compared with atmospheric neon, but Kr and Xe isotopic compositions are indistinguishable from atmospheric values within uncertainties with only individual samples having excess^129Xe,^134Xeand^136 Xe. 相似文献