日本地球惑星科学連合2014年大会

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[U-02_28PM1] Particle Geophysics

2014年4月28日(月) 14:15 〜 16:00 419 (4F)

コンビーナ:*田中 宏幸(東京大学地震研究所)、渡辺 寛子(東北大学ニュートリノ科学研究センター)、Cristiano Bozza(U-Salerno)、Dominique Gibert(IPGParis)、William McDonough(U-Maryland)、John Learned(U-Hawaii)、座長:Learned John(Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii)

15:00 〜 15:15

[U02-13] マントル中の希ガス貯蔵庫を地球ニュートリノ観測から特定できるか?

*角野 浩史1Ballentine Chris2 (1.東京大学大学院理学系研究科地殻化学実験施設、2.オックスフォード大学地球科学科)

キーワード:希ガス, マントル, ウラン・トリウム, 地球ニュートリノ, LLSVP, D"層

Noble gas isotopes in mantle-derived samples are key tracers of chemical heterogeneity in the Earth's mantle and of the origin of the atmosphere. Samples of mid-ocean ridge basalt (MORB) and ocean island basalt (OIB) provide a comprehensive understanding of mantle noble gases. MORBs show relatively uniform 3He/4He ratios and in a 21Ne/22Ne-20Ne/22Ne diagram form a mixing line between the atmospheric composition and the MORB-source endmember. The latter is formed by the addition of nucleogenic 21Ne to the primordial Ne ("solar" or "Ne-B" composition, Ballentine et al., 2005; Honda et al., 1991; Trieloff et al., 2000; Mukhopadhyay, 2012). In contrast, OIB samples, which are derived from a deeper region of the mantle, can exhibit higher 3He/4He ratios and less nucleogenic Ne isotope compositions. The OIB characteristics provide evidence for a mantle source in which primordial He and Ne has been less diluted by addition of radiogenic 4He and nucleogenic 21Ne produced by the decay of U- and Th-series elements. Therefore, noble gas isotopic evolution in the mantle is directly related to the U and Th contents in their reservoirs. However, the reasons for the less-radiogenic/nucleogenic character of the plume source are under debate; it may be less degassed (e.g., Allegre et al. 1983; Kaneoka, 1983; Kurz et al. 1982; Porcelli and Ballentine, 2002; Porcelli and Elliott, 2008), re-gassed through volatile recycling (Holland and Ballentine 2006; Ballentine and Holland 2008), or depleted in U and Th by ancient melt extraction events (Parman, 2007; Albarede, 2008). Recent finding of different 129Xe/130Xe ratios (129Xe is a product of extinct isotope 129I, while 130Xe is primordial) in the MORB and Icelandic plume source requires that a portion of the latter has been isolated from the MORB-source mantle over geological timescales (Mukhopadhyay, 2012). This finding is consistent with that the less degassed nature is essential for the high 3He/4He ratio of the plume source because high noble gas concentrations in the plume source is required to preserve Xe isotope heterogeneity against dilution by depleted or surface-recycled material with atmospheric or MORB-like 129Xe/130Xe. If the plume source corresponds to the large low-shear-wave-velocity provinces (LLSVPs) or D” layer at the base of the mantle, it may indeed have existed since the formation of the Earth and cannot exclusively be composed of subducted slabs (Mukhopadhyay, 2012). This is consistent with high 3He/4He (primordial) and low 3He/4He (recycled) components in Polynesian OIBs (Parai et al., 2009). The geoneutrino distribution will shed light on this issue; the less degassed (i.e., primordial) plume source is expected to contain 30-40% of the total mantle U and Th and if the LLSVPs is dominated by undiluted primordial material this feature will generate a significantly higher geoneutrino flux than a LLSVPs dominated by ancient subducted slabs with U and Th contents most likely lower than the convecting mantle. Subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) exhibits slightly lower 3He/4He ratio and more nucleogenic Ne feature (Gautheron and Moreira, 2002; Buikin et al., 2005), indicating it is enriched in U and Th relative to noble gases. Although U and Th concentrations in SCLM is estimated as 10-30 times those in the convecting mantle, its small volume fraction (ca. 1.5%) results in insignificant contribution to global geoneutrino flux. However, it may be significant for existing detectors located in or close to continental region such as KamLAND (Japan) and Borexino (Italy). An ocean-based or transportable detector like Hanohano (Sramek et al., 2013) is therefore expected to have a great advantage to reveal geoneutrino flux from the deep mantle.