Atmospheric noble gas signatures in deep Michigan Basin brines as indicators of a past thermal event

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 277, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 137-147

  Ma, Lin ^a   Castro, Maria Clara ^a   Hall, Chris M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

atmospheric noble gases; brine; mantle thermal event; Michigan Basin; stable tectonic region

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC NOBLE GASES; CONCEPTUAL MODELS; ELEVATED TEMPERATURES; FLUX RATIOS; FRACTURE ZONES; MANTLE THERMAL EVENT; MICHIGAN BASIN; NOBLE GAS DEPLETIONS; NOBLE GASSES; PHASE INTERACTIONS; PHYSICAL PROCESSES; RIFT SYSTEMS; SATURATED WATERS; SHALLOW DEPTHS; STABLE TECTONIC REGION; SUBSURFACE BOILING;

ATMOSPHERICS; BRINES; GASES; GROUNDWATER; HELIUM; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROGEOLOGY; KRYPTON; NEON; TECTONICS; XENON;

INERT GASES;

BRINE; HEAT FLUX; MANTLE; NOBLE GAS; NUMERICAL MODEL;

MICHIGAN BASIN; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 57749188231     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.10.015     Document Type: Article

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