Production, release and transport of noble gases in the continental crust

CJ Ballentine, PG Burnard - Reviews in mineralogy and …, 2002 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Noble gases within the crust originate from three main sources: the atmosphere, introduced
into the crust dissolved in groundwater; the mantle, in regions of magmatic activity; and …

Regional structural control on the distribution of world‐class gold deposits: An overview from the Giant Jiaodong Gold Province, China

J Deng, LQ Yang, RH Li, DI Groves… - Geological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The Jiaodong gold province in northeastern China is the country's premier gold resource
and globally one of the most important gold provinces. The late Early Cretaceous gold …

Limited underthrusting of India below Tibet: 3He/4He analysis of thermal springs locates the mantle suture in continental collision

SL Klemperer, P Zhao, CJ Whyte… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
During continent–continent collision, does the downgoing continental plate underplate far
inboard of the collisional boundary or does it subduct steeply into the mantle, and how is this …

Increased stray gas abundance in a subset of drinking water wells near Marcellus shale gas extraction

RB Jackson, A Vengosh, TH Darrah… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing are transforming energy production, but their
potential environmental effects remain controversial. We analyzed 141 drinking water wells …

Noble gases identify the mechanisms of fugitive gas contamination in drinking-water wells overlying the Marcellus and Barnett Shales

TH Darrah, A Vengosh, RB Jackson… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have enhanced energy production but raised
concerns about drinking-water contamination and other environmental impacts. Identifying …

Linking deeply-sourced volatile emissions to plateau growth dynamics in southeastern Tibetan Plateau

M Zhang, Z Guo, S Xu, PH Barry, Y Sano… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The episodic growth of high-elevation orogenic plateaux is controlled by a series of
geodynamic processes. However, determining the underlying mechanisms that drive …

Noble gases in lakes and ground waters

R Kipfer, W Aeschbach-Hertig, F Peeters, M Stute - 2002 - kops.uni-konstanz.de
In contrast to most other fields of noble gas geochemistry that mostly regard atmospheric
noble gases as' contamination,'air-derived noble gases make up the far largest and hence …

The geochemistry of naturally occurring methane and saline groundwater in an area of unconventional shale gas development

JS Harkness, TH Darrah, NR Warner, CJ Whyte… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2017 - Elsevier
Since naturally occurring methane and saline groundwater are nearly ubiquitous in many
sedimentary basins, delineating the effects of anthropogenic contamination sources is a …

Interpretation of (U–Th)/He single grain ages from slowly cooled crustal terranes: a case study from the Transantarctic Mountains of southern Victoria Land

PG Fitzgerald, SL Baldwin, LE Webb, PB O'Sullivan - Chemical Geology, 2006 - Elsevier
Low temperature thermochronologic techniques (eg apatite fission track (AFT)
thermochronology and (U–Th)/He dating) constrain near-surface T–t paths and are often …

The noble gas geochemistry of natural CO2 gas reservoirs from the Colorado Plateau and Rocky Mountain provinces, USA

SMV Gilfillan, CJ Ballentine, G Holland… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2008 - Elsevier
Identification of the source of CO2 in natural reservoirs and development of physical models
to account for the migration and interaction of this CO2 with the groundwater is essential for …