The Noble Gases as Geochemical Tracers

1. Front Matter

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2. The Noble Gases as Geochemical Tracers: History and Background

   • Pete Burnard, Laurent Zimmermann, Yuji Sano

   Pages 1-15

3. Noble Gases in the Atmosphere

   • Yuji Sano, Bernard Marty, Pete Burnard

   Pages 17-31

4. Noble Gases in Ice Cores: Indicators of the Earth’s Climate History

   • Gisela Winckler, Jeffrey P. Severinghaus

   Pages 33-53

5. Noble Gases in Seawater as Tracers for Physical and Biogeochemical Ocean Processes

   • Rachel H. R. Stanley, William J. Jenkins

   Pages 55-79

6. Noble Gas Thermometry in Groundwater Hydrology

   • Werner Aeschbach-Hertig, D. Kip Solomon

   Pages 81-122

7. Noble Gases as Environmental Tracers in Sediment Porewaters and Stalagmite Fluid Inclusions

   • M. S. Brennwald, N. Vogel, Y. Scheidegger, Y. Tomonaga, D. M. Livingstone, R. Kipfer

   Pages 123-153

8. Extraterrestrial He in Sediments: From Recorder of Asteroid Collisions to Timekeeper of Global Environmental Changes

   • David McGee, Sujoy Mukhopadhyay

   Pages 155-176

9. Application of Noble Gases to the Viability of CO2 Storage

   • Greg Holland, Stuart Gilfillan

   Pages 177-223

10. Noble Gases in Oil and Gas Accumulations

    • Alain Prinzhofer

    Pages 225-247

11. The Analysis and Interpretation of Noble Gases in Modern Hydrothermal Systems

    • Yuji Sano, Tobias P. Fischer

    Pages 249-317

12. Noble Gases and Halogens in Fluid Inclusions: A Journey Through the Earth’s Crust

    • Mark A. Kendrick, Pete Burnard

    Pages 319-369

13. Noble Gases as Tracers of Mantle Processes and Magmatic Degassing

    • M. A. Moreira, M. D. Kurz

    Pages 371-391

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 Earth’s interior to tracing climatic variations using noble gases trapped in ice cores, groundwaters and modern sediments. Other chapters cover noble gases in crustal (aqueous, CO2 and hydrocarbon) fluids and laboratory techniques for determining noble gas solubilities and diffusivities under geologically relevant conditions. Each chapter deals with the fundamentals of the analysis and interpretation of the data, detailing sampling and sampling strategies, techniques for analysis, sources of error and their estimation, including data treatment and data interpretation using recent case studies.

• Geochemical tracers
• Isotope geochemitry
• Isotopes
• Noble gases

From the reviews:

Selected by Choice magazine as an "Outstanding Academic Title" for 2013

“This edited work represents a valuable, unique contribution to the description, recovery, analysis, and application of the noble gases to earth science research. … The book is well illustrated and documented with extensive, up-to-date references. A valuable addition to the geologic literature and a must for researchers involved in the application of isotope chemistry to solving earth science problems. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners.” (M. E. McCallum, Choice, Vol. 51 (4), December, 2013)

• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochemiques, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France

  Pete Burnard

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