Ar, Kr, and Xe were measured in basalts dredged from several deep sea locations, one of which may indicate entrapment of planetary primordial gases. The data support earlier suggestion that Xe was depleted in the earth's atmosphere by selective adsorbtion.
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David E. Fisher (1974) studied this question.
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