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Constructing the Earth’s Formation History Using Deep Mantle Noble Gas Reservoirs

  • Authors: Vincent Savignac, Eve J. Lee

Vincent Savignac and Eve J. Lee 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 9.

Estimates of the noble gas sourcing in the deep mantle reservoirs of 3He, 22Ne, 36Ar, 84Kr, and 130Xe. Contributions from dissolved primordial gas from the solar nebula, chondritic volatiles incorporated during early formation of rocky interiors, and recycled gas subducted from the Earth’s secondary atmosphere are represented in yellow, green, and magenta, respectively. Concentrations are normalized to the measurements of noble gas concentrations in the bulk mantle (BM) of the Earth reported by B. Marty (2012), with the uncertainty on those measurements shown in black. Due to the preferential partitioning of Xe into the core with respect to Kr (K. Wang et al. 2022), the expected fraction of the initial 130Xe chondrite contribution is reduced and shown with a small inset blue bar, with the propagated uncertainty from the 84Kr measurement shown in pink.

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