Noble gas geochemistry / Minoru Ozima, Frank A. Podosek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ojima, Minoru.

Contributor:

Podosek, Frank A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gases, Rare.

Geochemistry.

Physical Description:

xiv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Summary:

Revised and updated new edition discussing the use of noble gas geochemistry to resolve problems in the earth and planetary sciences.

Contents:

1.1 Retrospect and Prospect 1

1.2 Geochemical Characteristics of the Noble Gases 4

1.3 Constants and Conventions 5

1.5 Air 10

1.6 Atmosphere 12

1.7 Nuclear Chemistry 15

1.8 Three-Isotope Diagrams 25

Chapter 2 Physical Chemistry 30

2.2 Adsorption 33

2.3 Solution 42

2.4 Crystal-Melt Partitioning 52

2.5 Trapping and Implanting 55

2.6 Clathrates and Fullerene C[subscript 60] 60

2.7 Diffusion 63

2.8 Stepwise Degassing 69

2.9 Isotopic Fractionation 74

Chapter 3 Cosmochemistry 81

3.1 Cosmic Abundances 81

3.2 Solar Noble Gases 83

3.3 Planetary Noble Gases 87

3.4 Extrasolar Noble Gases 93

Chapter 4 Water 98

4.2 Solubility Data 103

4.3 Seawater 106

4.4 Meteoric Water 110

4.5 Juvenile [superscript 4]He 112

4.6 Juvenile [superscript 3]He 113

4.7 Paleotemperature: Noble Gas Record 119

Chapter 5 Crust 123

5.2 Sediments 123

5.3 Cosmic Dusts 129

5.4 Noble Gases in Aquifer System 138

5.5 Cosmogenic Noble Gases 140

5.6 Crustal He and Ne-Nucleogenic Components 147

5.7 The [superscript 4]He/[superscript 40]Ar Ratio 155

5.8 Cyclo-Silicate Minerals 157

Chapter 6 Mantle 160

6.2 Mantle-Derived Volcanic Rocks 161

6.3 Diamonds 165

6.4 Volcanic Gases, Fumaroles, and Hydrothermal Waters 167

6.5 Mantle Xenoliths 168

6.6 Mantle Noble Gas (Abundance) 169

6.7 Mantle Noble Gas (Isotopic Ratios) 178

6.8 Degassed, Less-Degassed, and Regassed Mantle 187

6.9 Mantle Degassing Mechanism 190

6.10 Mantle Degassing Chronology 197

6.11 Excess [superscript 131-136]Xe: [superscript 244]Pu or [superscript 238]U Derived? 203

6.12 The Mantle He Flux 205

6.13 [superscript 4]He/Heat and Mantle Dichotomy 212

Chapter 7 Noble Gases in the Earth 217

7.2 Primordial Noble Gas in the Earth 218

7.3 SW, Q, and Terrestrial Noble Gases 227

7.4 Ne Fractionation 230

7.5 Missing Xe 233

7.6 Radiogenic [superscript 129]Xe* and Fission Xe 235

7.7 [superscript 244]Pu/[superscript 238]U-[superscript 129]I/[superscript 127]I Systematics 238

7.8 Origin of Terrestrial Noble Gas 241

7.9 Inventory 249.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-280) and index.

ISBN:

0521803667

OCLC:

45636886