CO2 gas pools in Jiyang sag, China

The CO2 gas pools of Jiyang sag are located along the Gaoqing–Pingnan fault within a region of alkaline basalts. The concentration of CO2 in the gas pools is in the range of 68.85–96.99%. All of the geochemical tracers for the CO2 gas pools support the suggestion that CO2 was mainly derived from mantle degassing. The δ13C values of CO2 in the gas pools are in the range of −5.67–−3.41‰, which are higher than those of organogenic CO2, and near to those of abiogenic CO2. Their 3He/4He ratios are 2.80–4.47×106, i.e. the R/Ra ratios are 2.00–3.19, showing that the Jiyang sag had undergone strong mantle degassing. CO2/3He ratios are 0.59–0.89×109, which are identical to those for N-MORB, indicating that CO2 in these CO2 gas pools was mainly derived from the mantle. Accompanying the intrusion of mantle-derived magma, the mantle-derived CO2 migrated upwards along deep faults and was trapped in advantageous structures forming gas pools.