[1] Noble gas concentrations and isotopic ratios are presented for 38 deep ( 0.5–3.6 km) brine samples in the Michigan Basin. These brine samples clearly show the presence of an important crustal component of He, Ne, Ar, and Xe. Both Arcrust and Xecrust display the presence of a strong vertical gradient along the sedimentary strata of the basin. We show that the in situ production for these two...

Trieloff et al. (1) provided neon isotope data to argue that mantle neon originates as a trapped component in meteorites rather than having a pristine solar composition. That finding, if true, has important consequences for understanding the mechanism of volatile input into the mantle, because it rules out models involving direct incorporation of solar gases. The main argument that Trieloff et ...

Introduction: Some impact-melt glasses in sher-gottite meteorites contain large abundances of martian atmospheric noble gases with high

Introduction: Tagish Lake has been classified as a CI2 chondrite [1] with an interstellar grain abundance enhanced over that of CI1 and CM2 chondrites [2]. Noble gases have been used as markers for the presence of exotic, presolar grains in chondritic meteorites: Xe-HL (nanodiamonds) and Xe-s/Ne-E (SiC). We have measured He, Ne, Ar and Xe in whole-rock Tagish Lake, and an orthophosphoric acidre...

There are two types of planetary noble gases. One containing isotopically " anomalous: argon ,krypton and xenon but isotopically " normal " helium and neon, was derived from outer stellar regions. The other, consisting almost entirely of isotopically " normal " argon, krypton and xenon with little or no helium or neon, was derived from inner stellar regions. Mixing of nucleosynthesis products f...

This paper presents results from the numerical modelling of the transport of atmospheric noble gases (He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe), tritiated water and He produced by radioactive decay of H, in unconsolidated lacustrine sediment. Two case studies are discussed: (1) the evolution of H and He concentrations in the sediment porewater of Lake Zug (Switzerland) from 1953 up to the present; and (2) the respon...

In single-bubble sonoluminescence, repeated brief flashes of light are produced in a gas bubble strongly driven by a periodic acoustic field. A startling hypothesis has been made by Lohse and co-workers [Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 1359 (1997)] that the non-noble gases in an air bubble undergo chemical reaction into soluble products, leaving only argon. In the present work, this dissociation hypothesi...