Using groundwater noble gas measurements to confirm paleorecharge hypotheses at Pahute Mesa, Nevada National Security Site, Nevada, USA

Author(s):  
Ate Visser ◽  
Edward Kwicklis ◽  
Irene Farnham ◽  
Andrew F. B. Tompson ◽  
Ronald L. Hershey
2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-48
Author(s):  
Tim Sander ◽  
Thomas Marx ◽  
Jürgen Engel ◽  
Werner Aeschbach-Hertig

2004 ◽  
Vol 61 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 231-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trevor J Stocki ◽  
Marc Bean ◽  
R Kurt Ungar ◽  
Harri Toivonen ◽  
Weihua Zhang ◽  
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Geofluids ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
W. Payton Gardner ◽  
Stephen J. Bauer ◽  
Scott Broome

We investigate deformation mechanics of fracture networks in unsaturated fractured rocks from subsurface conventional detonation using dynamic noble gas measurements and changes in air permeability. We dynamically measured the noble gas isotopic composition and helium exhalation of downhole gas before and after a large subsurface conventional detonation. These noble gas measurements were combined with measurements of the subsurface permeability field from 64 discrete sampling intervals before and after the detonation and subsurface mapping of fractures in borehole walls before well completion. We saw no observable increase in radiogenic noble gas release from either an isotopic composition or a helium exhalation point of view. Large increases in permeability were observed in 13 of 64 discrete sampling intervals. Of the sampling intervals which saw large increases in flow, only two locations did not have preexisting fractures mapped at the site. Given the lack of noble gas release and a clear increase in permeability, we infer that most of the strain accommodation of the fractured media occurred along previously existing fractures, rather than the creation of new fractures, even for a high strain rate event. These results have significant implications for how we conceptualize the deformation of rocks with fracture networks above the percolation threshold, with application to a variety of geologic and geological engineering problems.


2019 ◽  
Vol 208-209 ◽  
pp. 106047 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Johnson ◽  
C.E. Aalseth ◽  
T.R. Alexander ◽  
T.W. Bowyer ◽  
V. Chipman ◽  
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1997 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard LAVIELLE ◽  
Seraphin TOÉ ◽  
ERIC GILABERT
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Geosciences ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 439
Author(s):  
Thomas Smith ◽  
P. M. Ranjith ◽  
Huaiyu He ◽  
Rixiang Zhu

Martian meteorites are the only samples from Mars available for extensive studies in laboratories on Earth. Among the various unresolved science questions, the question of the Martian atmospheric composition, distribution, and evolution over geological time still is of high concern for the scientific community. Recent successful space missions to Mars have particularly strengthened our understanding of the loss of the primary Martian atmosphere. Noble gases are commonly used in geochemistry and cosmochemistry as tools to better unravel the properties or exchange mechanisms associated with different isotopic reservoirs in the Earth or in different planetary bodies. The relatively low abundance and chemical inertness of noble gases enable their distributions and, consequently, transfer mechanisms to be determined. In this review, we first summarize the various in situ and laboratory techniques on Mars and in Martian meteorites, respectively, for measuring noble gas abundances and isotopic ratios. In the second part, we concentrate on the results obtained by both in situ and laboratory measurements, their complementarity, and the implications for the Martian atmospheric dynamic evolution through the last billions of years. Here, we intend on demonstrating how the various efforts established the Mars-Martian meteorites connection and its significance to our understanding of the red planet.


2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (19) ◽  
pp. 9901-9909 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta C. Hamme ◽  
Steven R. Emerson ◽  
Jeffrey P. Severinghaus ◽  
Matthew C. Long ◽  
Igor Yashayaev

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