Open AccessMagmatic tritium
Author(s) -
Fraser Goff,
A I Aams,
Gary M. McMurtry,
Lisa Shevenell,
Donald R. Pettit,
J A Stimac,
Caryn Werner
Publication year - 1997
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/505274
Subject(s) - fumarole , tritium , volcano , national laboratory , geology , geochemistry , meteoric water , mineralogy , earth science , radiochemistry , nuclear physics , chemistry , groundwater , engineering physics , physics , geotechnical engineering
This is the final report of a three-year, Laboratory-Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Detailed geochemical sampling of high-temperature fumaroles, background water, and fresh magmatic products from 14 active volcanoes reveal that they do not produce measurable amounts of tritium ({sup 3}H) of deep origin (<0.1 T.U. or <0.32 pCi/kg H{sub 2}O). On the other hand, all volcanoes produce mixtures of meteoric and magmatic fluids that contain measurable {sup 3}H from the meteoric end-member. The results show that cold fusion is probably not a significant deep earth process but the samples and data have wide application to a host of other volcanological topics