Baking at AORI

A few sediment samples from the Nankai Trough have been analyzed to determine the He concentrations and the 3He/4He isotope ratios in the mineral phase. The CO(2) produced by heating the samples in a Ta furnace (i.e., the gas extraction step at up to 1800°C) was analyzed for its δ13C isotope signature.

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ICDP PaleoVan project – Quaternary Science Reviews special issue

The Quaternary Science Reviews special issue Results from the PALEOVAN Drilling Project: a 600,000 year long continental archive in the Near East is now published. Our contribution

  • Tomonaga, Y., Brennwald, M. S., Meydan, A. F., & Kipfer, R. (2014). Noble gases in the sediments of Lake Van – solute transport and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Quat. Sci. Rev., 104, 117–126.

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