Xe in glacial ice and the atmospheric inventory of noble gases

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Dec 1985

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Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (ISSN 0016-7037), vol. 49, Dec. 1985, p. 2561-2564. DOE-supported research.

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Abundance, Atmospheric Composition, Glaciers, Land Ice, Rare Gases, Xenon, Antarctic Regions, Mass Spectroscopy, Meteoritic Composition

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Noble gas abundance data for four Antarctic glacial ice samples which were selected to test the hypothesis that the apparent Xe deficiency in the earth's atmosphere relative to meteoritic abundance is due to incorporation of Xe in glacial ice are reported. The measurements indicate that the concentrations of Xe in glacial ice fall far short (by about 10,000) of what the hypothesis requires. The present results complete the survey of all significant atmospheric reservoirs and show that the 'missing Xe' is not contained in any of them. It must either be in the solid earth in yet unsampled reservoirs, or else it simply does not exist and the noble gas abundance pattern of the earth is dissimilar to that in meteorites.

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