The triple argon isotope composition of groundwater on ten-thousand-year timescales
The triple argon isotope composition of groundwater on ten-thousand-year timescales
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万年时间尺度地下水的三重氩同位素组成
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10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120458
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2021
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3.9
通讯作者:
Severinghaus, Jeffrey P.
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Seltzer, Alan M.;Krantz, John A.;Ng, Jessica;Danskin, Wesley R.;Bekaert, David V.;Barry, Peter H.;Kimbrough, David L.;Kulongoski, Justin T.;Severinghaus, Jeffrey P.
Understanding the age and movement of groundwater is important for predicting the vulnerability of wells to contamination, constraining flow models that inform sustainable groundwater management, and interpreting geochemical signals that reflect past climate. Due to both the ubiquity of groundwater with order ten-thousand-year residence times and its importance for climate reconstruction of the last glacial period, there is a strong need for improving geochemical dating tools on this timescale. Whereas14C of dissolved inorganic carbon and dissolved4He are common age tracers for Late Pleistocene groundwater, each is limited by systematic uncertainties related to aquifer composition and lithology, and the extent of water-rock interaction. In principle, radiogenic40Ar in groundwater acquired from decay of40K in aquifer minerals should be insensitive to some processes that impact14C and4He and thus represent a useful, complementary age tracer. In practice, however, detection of significant radiogenic40Ar signals in groundwater has been limited to a small number of studies of extremely old groundwater (>100 ka). Here we present the first high-precision (<1‰) measurements of triple Ar isotopes (40Ar,38Ar,36Ar) in groundwater. We introduce a model that distinguishes radiogenic40Ar from atmospheric40Ar by using the non-radiogenic Ar isotopes (36Ar,38Ar) to correct for mass-dependent fractionation. Using this model, we investigate variability in radiogenic40Ar excess (Δ40Ar) across 58 groundwater samples collected from 36 wells throughout California (USA). We find that Δ40Ar ranges from ~0‰ (the expected minimum value) to +4.2‰ across three study areas near Fresno, San Diego, and the western Mojave Desert. Based on measurements from a network of 23 scientific monitoring wells in San Diego, we find evidence for a strong dependence of Δ40Ar on aquifer lithology. We suggest that Δ40Ar is fundamentally controlled by the weathering of old K-bearing minerals and thus reflects both the degree of groundwater-rock interaction, which is related to groundwater age, and the integrated flow through different geological formations. Future studies of Late Pleistocene groundwater may benefit from high-precision triple Ar isotope measurements as a new tool to better interpret14C- and4He-based constraints on groundwater age and flow.
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