Lanzhou Center for Oil and Gas Resources, Institute of Geology and Geophysics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Beijing Office
Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (GIG-CAS)
Chengdu University of Technology (CDUT)
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International Workshop on Noble Gas Geochemistry invites all researchers
world-wide to Chengdu, China, in 2015 to participate in the seminar, which is
organized by the Lanzhou Center for Oil and Gas Resources, Institute of
Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Japan Society
for the Promotion of Science, Beijing Office.
Noble gas isotopes have important theoretical significance and broad
application. They can be used for geochemical exploration and earth evolution
history, involving many fields of geological and geochemical studies. Radiogenic
noble gases represent the source rock characteristics of radioactive elements
uranium, thorium and potassium. And, they can also be used for exploring the
migration of crustal gases and their enrichment processes. Noble gases are one
of the important geochemical fingerprints used to identify natural gas genetic
types. At the same time, as a kind of geological structure index, they can also be
applied to studying the characteristics of geological tectonic belts, as well as for
exploring the relationship between seismic and tectonic activity. In addition,
noble gas studies can be used as an important means of earthquake prediction.
Noble gases are also plays an important role in studying hydrology, geothermal
energy and other mineral resources.
Two internationally distinguished scientists, Prof. Yuji Sano and Prof. David
R. Hilton, will be the keynote speakers for the seminar. Both Sano and Hilton
are famous specialists working on noble gas geochemistry. They will give us
masterly speeches about applications of helium to the solid earth, ocean,
atmosphere and faults, earthquakes. We cordially invite all participants who are
interested in noble gas geochemistry.
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Program
23th, August, 2015
Time
Keynote Speaker
Title
13:00-13:10
Guodong Zheng
Welcome Address
Yuji Sano
Helium Isotope Geochemistry Application for solid earth, ocean and
atmosphere
13:10-15:10
15:10-15:30
Coffee/Tea Break
15:30-17:30
David R. Hilton
Helium isotopes, faults and earthquakes:
recent studies along the San Andreas
Fault (California, USA) and North
Anatolian Fault (Turkey)
17:30-17:50
Kaoru Hirota
JSPS Recruitment Fair
17:50-20:00
Dinner
Workshop Secretariat:
382, Donggang West Road, Lanzhou, 730000, China
Dr. LI Zhongping: Email: lizhongping@lzb.ac.cn Phone: 13139259346,
Dr. CAO Chunhui: Email: caochunhui@lzb.ac.cn Phone: 18909498657,
Dr. MA Xiangxian: Email: maxxan@lzb.ac.cn Phone: 18919151712,
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Content：
Helium Isotope Geochemistry - Application for solid earth, ocean and
atmosphere
Abstract:
Since the discovery of primordial helium-3 in 1969, helium isotope geochemistry is a
major subject of earth and planetary sciences and several key problems of the origin and
history of volatile elements have been resolved. The chemical inertness of helium is
responsible for most important features of its behavior in nature. It is possible to confine
people to the discussion of physical process alone without reference to the extremely
complicated chemical ones, which simplifies the model of natural processes and offers an
opportunity for reliable quantitative approach to the interpretation of observed data. I
present here five stories of helium isotope geochemistry, e.g., application for solid earth
science, oceanography and atmospheric environment. My lecture contains the followings:
Themes:
No.1 Helium isotopes and geotectonic setting of Japanese Island
No.2 Noble gases and chemical oceanography
No.3 Precise measurement of atmospheric helium isotopes
No.4 Volatile elements flux and evolution of atmosphere
No.5 Tohoku earthquake and helium isotope anomaly, and sulfur geodynamic cycle
Prof. Yuji Sano：
Prof. Yuji Sano is a Professor of Atmosphere and
Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo. He
studied the geochemistry of volatile element
isotopes such as helium, carbon, and nitrogen in
volcanic and environmental systems. His research
involves the application of noble gas isotopes to
atmosphere, Ocean, seismic activity and earth
degassing problems.
He has published 56 papers in SCI journals
including four manuscripts in Nature and two
papers in Science. After promotion to full Professor at Hiroshima University, he introduced a
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large ion microprobe (SHRIMP) into the Department and invented the method for U-Pb
dating of apatite, which has been applied to studies of the origin of life and the formation
age of lunar crypto mare. He moved to the Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute,
University of Tokyo in 2001 and established a noble gas laboratory for atmospheric and
oceanic research and the NanoSIMS laboratory for paleoceanography and planetary sciences.
Based on his achievements of several research projects and outstanding publications, he
received a Research Award from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and
Technology of Japan in 2009, which was the first such award granted to a researcher in the
geochemistry field. In 2012, he was elected as a fellow of American Geophysical Union. In
2014 he received the Seventh National Maritime Award from the Prime Minister. In summary,
he has published 197 refereed papers in SCI journals including 6 in Nature, 2 in Science, 4 in
Nature’s sister journals. These accomplishments and contributions represent a first class
achievement in geochemistry and cosmochemistry.
Selected publications:
1. Wakita, H. and Sano Y. 1983. 3He/4He ratios in CH4-rich natural gases suggest magmatic origin. Nature
305, 792-794.
2. Sano, Y., Nakamura, Y., Wakita, H., Urabe, A. and Tominaga, T. 1984. Helium-3 emission related to
volcanic activity. Science 224, 150-151.
3. Sano, Y., Toyoda, K. and Wakita, H. 1985. 3He/4He ratios of marine ferromanganese nodules. Nature 317,
518-520.
4. Sano, Y., Wakita, H. and Huang, C.-W. 1986. Helium flux in a continental land area: Estimated from
3He/4He ratio in northern Taiwan.
Nature 323, 55-57.
5. Nojiri, Y., Kusakabe, M., Hirabayashi, J., Sato, H., Sano, Y., Shinohara, H., Njine, T. and Tanyileke, G. 1990.
Gas discharge at Lake Nyos. Nature 346, 322-323.
6. Igarashi, G., Saeki, S., Takahata, N., Sumikawa, K., Tasaka, S., Sasaki, Y., Takahashi, M. and Sano, Y. 1995.
Ground-water radon anomaly before the Kobe earthquake in Japan. Science 269, 60-61.
7. Sano, Y., Terada, K., Takahashi, Y. and Nutman, A.P. 1999. Origin of life from apatite dating? Nature 400,
127.
8. Terada, K., Anand, M., Sokol, A.K., Bischoff, A. and Sano, Y. 2007. Cryptomare magmatism 4.35 Ga ago
recorded in lunar meteorite Kalahari 009. Nature 450, 849-852.
9. Hashizume, K., Takahata, N., Naraoka, H. and Sano, Y. 2011. Extreme oxygen isotope anomaly with a
solar origin detected in meteoritic organics. Nature Geoscience 4, 165-168.
10. Fujiya, W., Sugiura, N., Hotta, H., Ichimura, K. and Sano, Y. 2012. Evidence for the late formation of
hydrous asteroids from young meteoritic carbonates. Nature Communications 3, 627.
11. Sano, Y., Kobayashi, S., Shirai, K., Takahata, N., Matsumoto, K., Watanabe, T., Sowa, K. and Iwai, K. 2012.
Past daily light cycle recorded in strontium/calcium ratios of giant clam shell. Nature Communications
3, 761.
12. Sano, Y., Hara, T., Takahata, N., Kawagucci, S., Honda, M., Nishio, Y., Tanikawa, W., Hasegawa, A. and
Hattori, K. 2014. Helium anomalies suggest a fluid pathway from mantle to trench during the 2011
Tohoku-oki earthquake. Nature Communications 5, 3084.
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Helium isotopes, faults and earthquakes: recent studies along the San
Andreas Fault (California, USA) and North Anatolian Fault (Turkey)
Abstract:
Helium isotopes present the only definitive means of unequivocally recognizing
mantle-derived volatile emissions captured by groundwater and geothermal fluids. This
property can be used in faulted regions of Earth’s crust to gauge the role and flux
contributions of deep-seated helium and associated volatiles (such as CO2) to total volatile
budgets which can be dominated by additions from the crust. In this presentation, I will
show how mantle fluxes of volatiles contribute and vary along the strike of two major plate
boundary faults – the San Andreas Fault in California (USA) and the North Anatolian Fault in
Turkey. Both faults present potentially hazardous regions prone to earthquake activity and I
will discuss strategies for monitoring these faults to determine if any relationship exists
between seismic activity and variations in volatile chemistry. Results from sampling before
and after an earthquake in eastern Turkey will be presented to illustrate the types of changes
that might be anticipated as a result of earthquakes occurring in the shallow crust.
Prof. David R. Hilton
David R. Hilton is a Professor of
Geochemistry in the Geosciences Research Division
at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University
of California, San Diego. His research involves the
application of noble gas isotopes to petrogenetic,
geodynamic, geothermal, and hydrogeological
problems.
As an isotope geochemist and head of the
Fluids and Volatiles Laboratory at Scripps, Hilton
studies the relationship between helium and carbon in degassing of currently-active
volcanoes/calderas in arc environments, such as Indonesia, the Caribbean, Central America,
and the Andes; ocean islands, such as Iceland and Hawaii; and continental geothermal
systems, such as Rungwe Volcanic Province in Tanzania. His other areas of research include
using noble gases as indicators of recharge characteristics and flow history in groundwater
systems in arid environments, such as in the Kalahari and Mojave deserts; studying the
nature of mantle plumes using noble gas tracers; and noble gas (He, Ne, Ar, Xe)-stable
Prof.
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isotope (C, H, O)-radiogenic isotope (Sr, Nd, Pb) relationships in oceanic and continental lavas.
He has authored over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and books on these topics.
Selected publications:
1. Hilton, DR, Hoogewerff JA, Vanbergen MJ, Hammerschmidt K. 1992. Mapping Magma Sources in the
East Sunda-Banda Arcs, Indonesia - Constraints from Helium Isotopes. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica
Acta. 56:851-859.
2. Hilton, DR, McMurtry GM, Goff F. 1998. Large variations in vent fluid CO2/3He ratios signal rapid changes
in magma chemistry at Loihi seamount, Hawaii. Nature. 396:359-362.
3. Hilton, DR, Craig H. 1989. A Helium Isotope Transect Along the Indonesian Archipelago. Nature.
342:906-908.
4. Hilton, DR, Thirlwall MF, Taylor RN, Murton BJ, Nichols A. 2000. Controls on magmatic degassing along
the Reykjanes Ridge with implications for the helium paradox. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
183:43-50.
5. Hilton, DR, Halldorsson SA, Barry PH, Fischer TP, de Moor JM, Ramirez CJ, Mangasini F, Scarsi P. 2011.
Helium isotopes at Rungwe Volcanic Province, Tanzania, and the origin of East African Plateaux.
Geophysical Research Letters. 38.
6. Hilton, DR, Pallister JS, Pua RM. 2005. Introduction to the Special Issue on the 2003 Eruption of
Anatahan Volcano, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). Journal of Volcanology
and Geothermal Research. 146:1-7.
7. Hilton, DR, Macpherson CG, Elliott TR. 2000. Helium isotope ratios in mafic phenocrysts and geothermal
fluids from La Palma, the Canary Islands (Spain): Implications for HIMU mantle sources. Geochimica
Et Cosmochimica Acta. 64:2119-2132.
8. Hilton, DR, Craig H. 1989. The Siljan Deep Well - Helium Isotope Results.Geochimica Et Cosmochimica
Acta. 53:3311-3316.
9. Hilton, DR, Gronvold K, Macpherson CG, Castillo PR. 1999. Extreme 3He/4He ratios in northwest Iceland:
constraining the common component in mantle plumes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
173:53-60.
10. Hilton, DR, Hammerschmidt K, Loock G, Friedrichsen H. 1993. Helium and Argon Isotoope Systematics
of the Central Lau Basin and Valu Fa Ridge - Evidence of Cruse Mantle Interactions in a Back-Arc Basin.
Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta. 57:2819-2841.
11. Hilton, DR, Barling J, Wheller OE. 1995. Effect of Shallow-Level Contamination on the Helium Isotope
Systematics of Ocean-Island Lavas.Nature. 373:330-333.
12. Hilton, DR. 2007. Geochemistry - The leaking mantle. Science. 318:1389-1390.
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Lanzhou Center for Oil and Gas Resources, Institute of Geology and
Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Lancog; formerly known as Lanzhou
Institute of Geology, CAS) was founded in 1956, and was mainly engaged in oil
and gas geochemistry. Lancog is home to the Key Laboratory of Petroleum
Resources Research, which was partically based on the State Key Laboratory of
Gas Geochemistry founded in 1991. Lancog is one of the unique specialized
institutions engaged in gas geochemistry and has achieved great progress in
both theory and practice. Firstly, it developed noble gas isotope analysis
methods on natural gas geochemistry and created the sciences of noble gas
geochemistry in China. Many remarkable achievements were achieved in
identifying natural gas genetic types, forecast seismic activity and tracing
ore-forming fluid, etc. Besides, lots of researchers focused on gas geochemistry
had been trained in the institute, and some went abroad for further study in
the world-renowed institutions and universities, and greatly improved
academic communication and technical cooperation. Lancog is now equiped
with three noble gas isotope mass spectrometers, five stable isotope mass
spectrometers and ICP-MS, etc. After nearly half a century of development,
Lancog has become one of the most professional institutions in the world on
noble gas geochemistry, organic geochemistry, and stable isotope geochemistry.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) was founded in 1932.
JSPS spared no effort for more than 80 years to fund scientific research,
cultivate researchers, promote the academic exchanges and revitalize the
international academic development. Beijing representative office together
with JSPS China alumni association held project presentations, in Beijing, Jilin,
Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shanghai, Fujian, Hunan, Guangdong, Hubei, Sichuan,
Gansu and Yunnan province. It provides useful information for scholars who
apply for JSPS international communication project.
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Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of
Sciences (GIGCAS) was established in 1993. The institute focuses on the core
disciplines of organic geochemistry, element and isotope geochemistry, ore
deposit
geochemistry,
structural
geology,
petrology,
mineralogy,
and
experimental geochemistry. It is home to two national key laboratories and four
CAS or provincial key laboratories. As part of its mission, the institute conducts
important resource and environmental research to solve sustainability
problems at the national and regional levels. It has also achieved international
recognition in a number of research fields, including ultrahigh-pressure mineral
and shock metamorphism, biomarkers and the genesis of oil and gas, etc.
The predecessor of Chengdu University of Technology (CDUT), Chengdu
Institute of Geology, was founded in 1956. In 1993, Chengdu Institute of
Geology was renamed as Chengdu Institute of Technology. CDUT is based
chiefly on the subjects of science and engineering, with geology, energy
resources, resources and environment, management, basic engineering,
electronic information as its advantages and characteristics. Significant progress
has been made by CDUT in the research fields of genetic mechanism and
comprehensive evaluation methods and techniques of tight sandstone
reservoirs, evaluation methods of hydrocarbon resources in the Tibetan Plateau,
seismic detection and comprehensive prediction of fractured system, etc.
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Silver Sponsor:
Lanzhou Center for Oil and Gas Resources,
Institute of Geology and Geophysics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science
(JSPS) Beijing Office
Guangzhou Institute of
Geochemistry, Chinese
Academy of Sciences
Chengdu University
of Technology
(CDUT)