Figure 1: Major chemical differences between the chondrites and the bulk silicate Earth (BSE). | Nature Communications

Figure 1: Major chemical differences between the chondrites and the bulk silicate Earth (BSE).

From: Cosmochemical fractionation by collisional erosion during the Earth’s accretion

Figure 1

The abundances are normalized to Si and CI chondrites11,12. From left to right, the lithophile elements are reported with decreasing their 50% condensation temperature. The depletion of volatile elements in the BSE results from the erosion of crusts enriched with incompatible elements and the subsequent loss of the most volatile elements.

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