Hawaiian volcanoes, gases

Patterson suffered the first of many severe asthmatic attacks after collecting acidic gas samples from a Hawaiian volcano in 1983. The steroids he took for the asthma exacerbated his inherited osteoporosis, and his frame shrank nine inches to five foot seven. He applied twice for funds to create a line of lead-free rats to study biological processes in uncontaminated mammals. After both applications were rejected, he frequently became depressed. 

The Hawaiian volcano Kilauea emits an average of 1.5X10 m of gas each day, when corrected to 298 K and... 

Conclusions about the atmospheric composition of the early earth have been drawn from the gas exhalations of the so-called Hawaiian volcanoes type (Table 2.6). Oxygen is almost entirely missing from volcanic exhalations. Where O2 is... 

The first identification of cosmogenic noble gas in crustal rocks was reported by Kurz (1986). Kurz measured a series of basaltic-drilled core samples from Mauna Loa volcanoes in the Hawaiian Islands. The lava flow (14C age 20,000 a) has retained its surface flow structure and, therefore, was concluded to have experienced little surface erosion. Because the 3He concentration in the surface of the lava flow (10 I2-I0 cm3STPg ) gave reasonable agreement with a theoretical production... 

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