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Jun 1988
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988gecoa..52.1443t&link_type=abstract
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 52, Issue 6, pp.1443-1448
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Argon isotopes from a number of sources are present in quartz veins and chert; in situ decay of potassium, parentless 40 Ar leached or outgassed from surrounding rocks, atmospheric argon dissolved in ancient hydrothermal fluids, and, modern atmospheric argon. The manner in which the 40 Ar- 39 Ar techniques can be used to unscramble these components, by way of correlations with Cl and K, is described in relation to two parallel studies of vein quartz and the Gunflint chert. Information concerning several processes can be inferred, including: contributions of surface waters to trapped fluids (from the concentration of atmospheric argon in the fluids), degree of water-rock interaction (from the concentration of parentless 40 Ar and/or the ratio of parentless to atmospheric argon), effects of dilution of primary hydrothermal brines by meteoric water (which results in a decrease in the ratio of both Cl and parentless 40 Ar to atmospheric argon), effects of boiling (from low concentrations of atmospheric argon and an increase in Cl / 40 Ar ). The K-Ar chronology of deposition can also be inferred in suitable circumstances. In principle, the ( 40 Ar / 36 Ar ) ratio of the ancient atmosphere can be determined from fluids free of parentless 40 Ar. However, a ( 40 Ar / 36 Ar ) ratio determined for a low salinity end member in Gunflint chert probably reflects the presence of modern meteoric water.
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