Isotopic-geochemical features of spontaneous gases from mud volcanoes in Eastern Georgia

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Isotopic-geochemical study revealed presence of mantle He (3He/4He up to 223x10**-8) in gases from mud volcanoes of Eastern Georgia. This fact confirms that the Middle Kura basin fill encloses an intrusive body previously distinguished from geophysical data. Wide variations of carbon isotopic composition d13C in CH4 and CO2 and chemical composition of gas and water at temporally constant 3He/4He ratio indicate their relation with crustal processes. Unusual direct correlations of 3He/4He ratio with concentrations of He and CH4 and 40Ar/36Ar ratio can be explained by generation of gas in the Cenozoic sequence of the Middle Kura basin.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.785872
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1134/S0024490209020060
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.785872
Provenance
Creator Lavrushin, VYu; Polyak, Boris G; Pokrovskii, B G; Kopp, M L; Buachidze, G I; Kamensky, I L
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2009
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 252 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (44.730W, 41.214S, 45.928E, 41.748N); Kakheti, Georgia