Excess helium and argon of radiogenic origin in Mediterranean brine basins

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 151, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 225-231

  Winckler, Gisela ^a   Suess, Erwin ^b   Wallmann, Klaus ^b   De Lange, Gert J ^c   Westbrook, Graham K ^d   Bayer, Reinhold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ar 40 Ar 36; Brines; Evaporites; He 3 He 4; He 4; Mediterranean Sea; Messinian

Indexed keywords

ARGON; BRINE LAKE; BRINES; EVAPORITE; EVAPORITES; HELIUM; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MESSINIAN; MIOCENE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA, URANIA BASIN;

EID: 0031413631     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(97)81850-x     Document Type: Article

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