The Noble Gases as Geochemical Tracers

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Burnard, Pete. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Advances in Isotope Geochemistry
• Subjects: Geography.; Chemistry.; Geochemistry.; Environmental chemistry.; Earth Sciences.; Chemistry/Food Science, general.; Environmental Chemistry.; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28836-4

The twelve chapters of this volume aim to provide a complete manual for using noble gases in terrestrial geochemistry, covering applications which range from high temperature processes deep in the Earths interior to tracing climatic variations using noble gases trapped in ice cores, groundwaters an...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introductory Chapter
• 2. Noble Gases in ice cores: Indicators of the Earths climate history
• 3. Ocean circulation traced by noble gases
• 4. Groundwater circulation and palaeotemperatures by noble gas geochemistry
• 5. Noble gases as environmental tracers in porewater of lacustrine or oceanic sediments and in fluid inclusions of stalagmites
• 6. Extraterrestrial He in sediments: From recorder of asteroid collisions to timekeeper of global environmental changes
• 7. Application of noble gases to the viability of CO2 storage
• 8. Noble gases in oil and gas accumulations 9. The analysis and interpretation of noble gases in modern hydrothermal systems
• 10. Inclusion trapped fluids: tracing ancient fluids using noble gases.-.11. Noble gases as tracers of of mantle processes and magmatic degassing.