ABSTRACT
Many workers have examined the concentration of dissolved gases in marine waters like seawater. Most of the earlier work has been reviewed by Richards (1965) and by Kester (1975). The most widely studied gas (excluding CO2) is oxygen. Attempts have been made to separate the physical and biological processes that control the distribution of O2. Studies have also been conducted on the unreactive or conservative gases (N2 and Ar) and the noble gases (He, Ne, Kr, and Xe). The regular distribution of the conservative gases has been used to study the exchange processes across the air-sea interfaces. The irregular distribution of He and Rn have been used to study exchange processes across the sediment-water interface.
