日本質量分析学会 第68回質量分析総合討論会会

演題概要

ポスター発表

第2日 5月12日(火)  P会場(1008/09)

234U/238U同位体指標の還元的な地下水系への適用

(関学理工)
栗林千佳o谷水雅治伊藤茜

234U/238U ratios were examined from a groundwater system which flows in a Tertiary sedimentary rock in the Horonobe area in Hokkaido to estimate the degrees of U-series isotopic disequilibrium. About 10 L groundwater samples (less than 1 ppt U) and carbonate samples precipitated from the groundwater were collected in the area. After the conventional chemical separation, their 234U/238U isotope ratios were determined by double-focusing sector field ICPMS. Various 234U/238U ratios were observed for the groundwater samples, but those for carbonate samples were nearly in secular equilibrium. Isotope ratios of 234U/238U detected precisely by mass spectrometry will become a useful isotopic proxy in groundwater hydrological studies to trace their origin, flow direction, and water mixing.