Deuterium in the Dead Sea: Remeasurement and implications for the isotopic activity correction in brines

Journal Article · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1989 · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta; (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0016-7037(89)90279-2· OSTI ID:7243000

Horita, Juske ^[1]; Gat, J R ^[2]

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1. Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot (Israel) Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
2. Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot (Israel)

Remeasurement of {delta}D in Dead Sea waters, using improved analytical techniques for handling concentrated brines, removed most of the scatter in previous data and showed close parallelism in the enrichment of both {sup 18}O and deuterium as a function of salinity. The {delta}D values for a brine whose salinity is {sigma}{sub 25} = 232{per thousand} is close to +9{per thousand} relative to SMOW. It was further established that the concentration to activity correction (for deuterium) for the above mentioned Dead Sea brine was 17.8{per thousand}.

• OSTI ID: 7243000
• Journal Information: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta; (USA), Vol. 53:1; ISSN 0016-7037
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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58 GEOSCIENCES
BRINES
QUANTITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
THERMODYNAMIC ACTIVITY
DEAD SEA
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
DEUTERIUM
GEOCHEMISTRY
ISOTOPE RATIO
OXYGEN ISOTOPES
SALINITY
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
CHEMISTRY
HYDROGEN ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
LAKES
LIGHT NUCLEI
NUCLEI
ODD-ODD NUCLEI
STABLE ISOTOPES
SURFACE WATERS
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