Mantle sources of ocean islands basalts revealed from noble gas isotope systematics

JMD Day, TD Jones, RW Nicklas - Chemical Geology, 2022 - Elsevier
Noble gas isotope systematics, particular those of He, have been fundamental in showing
that some ocean island basalts (OIB) were sourced from deep mantle plumes. Relationships …

Highest terrestrial 3He/4He credibly from the core

F Horton, PD Asimow, KA Farley, J Curtice, MD Kurz… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The observation that many lavas associated with mantle plumes have higher 3He/4He ratios
than the upper convecting mantle underpins geophysical, geodynamic and geochemical …

Mineral Crushing Methods for Noble Gas Analyses of Fluid Inclusions

C Wilske, A Suckow, C Gerber, A Deslandes… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Noble gases are frequently probed for investigating fluid inclusions in minerals to unravel
rock‐forming processes through time. Over the last decades, heating and crushing have …

Effectiveness of X-ray micro-CT applications upon mafic and ultramafic ophiolitic rocks

V Giamas, P Koutsovitis, A Sideridis, P Turberg… - Micron, 2022 - Elsevier
X-ray micro-computed tomography (μCT) was applied upon selected ophiolitic rock samples
from various localities of the Vardar ophiolite outcrops in North Greece. Effectiveness of the …

Heterogeneous mantle-derived helium isotopes in the Canary Islands and other ocean islands

JMD Day, DR Hilton - Geology, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Consistent 3He/4He ratios have been measured for> 25 years in geothermal fluids
and gases from Cumbre Vieja, La Palma (9.4±0.1 RA, where RA is the 3He/4He of air), and …

Predominantly recycled carbon in Earth's upper mantle revealed by He-CO2-Ba systematics in ultradepleted ocean ridge basalts

DW Graham, PJ Michael - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
Basalts erupted within intra-transform spreading centers can be valuable probes of
geochemical components in Earth's upper mantle, and provide constraints on the …

Helium isotope evidence for mixing of mantle-derived fluids and deeply penetrating surface waters in an obducted peridotite massif

C Swindle, D Clark, KA Farley - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract We measured He and Ar in fresh peridotites from the Twin Sisters massif,
Washington USA. 3 He/4 He ratios measured on> 35 samples are highly variable (∼ 0.8 …

Primordial neon in high-3He/4He Baffin Island olivines

F Horton, J Curtice, KA Farley, MD Kurz… - Earth and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Paleocene basaltic lavas exposed on Baffin Island have the highest 3 He/4 He found in any
terrestrial igneous rocks and potentially contain the most pristine primordial mantle material …

Dating Clinopyroxene Phenocrysts in Submarine Basalts Using 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology

K Konrad, AAP Koppers, AM Balbas… - Geochemistry …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Dating submarine basalts using 40Ar/39Ar geochronology is often hindered by a lack of
potassium‐bearing phenocrystic phases and severe alteration in the groundmass …

Cosmogenic 3He dating of olivine with tightly retained mantle 3He, Volcano Mountain, Yukon

J Mueller, J Bond, K Farley… - Geochronology …, 2024 - gchron.copernicus.org
We present a step-heat method for isolating cosmogenic 3 He (3 He c) from mantle He in
olivine xenocrysts to date the eruption of very young nephelinites from Volcano Mountain …