Noble gas solubility in super-critical water: implications for inert gas studies and geochronology

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Published: Oct 1, 1984
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22201/igeof.00167169p.1984.23.4.2174
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Noble gases, Supercritical water, Inert gas, Geochronology, K-Ar system

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J. G. Mitchell
School of Physics, The University Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 7RU, U. K.
D. J. Terrell
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Geofísica, Ciudad Universitaria, Delegación Coyoacán, 04510, Ciudad de México, México.

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Inert gases will ideally exhibit infinite miscibility with super-critical water. The implications of this phenomenon are discussed in the context of the resetting of the K-Ar system during regional metamorphism, and emplacement of granites. Inert gas abundances in oceanfloor rocks and shales may also be interpreted as a consequence (at least in part) of partioning between water and silicate phases in which the light inert gases are preferentially taken up in water. The function of super-critical water as a transport medium for inert gases offers an important alternative to the unlikely process ofvolume diffusion at low temperatures.

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Mitchell, J. G., & Terrell, D. J. (1984). Noble gas solubility in super-critical water: implications for inert gas studies and geochronology. Geofisica Internacional, 23(4), 483–490. https://doi.org/10.22201/igeof.00167169p.1984.23.4.2174
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