Advances in High Energy Physics / 2012 / Article / Tab 2 / Review Article
Geoneutrinos Table 2 Abundance estimates of U, Th, and K in BSE and DM. Uncertainties are included where available.
U (ppb) Th (ppb) K (ppm) Th/U K/U Power (TW) Reference
Bulk silicate Earth (BSE) Collisional erosion model 10 38 120 3.8 12000 9.6 O'Neill and Palme [62 ] Based on enstatite chondrites 13.5
3.1 28500 15 Javoy [63 ] 12.1
3.5 12000 11 Javoy et al. [64 ]† Based on terrestrial rocks and C1 carbonaceous chondrite ratios of RLE abundances 20.8
3.8 12700 20 Hart and Zindler [58 ] 20.3 ± 20%
3.9 11800
McDonough and Sun [55 ] 21.8 ± 15%
3.8 11900
Palme and O'Neill [59 ] 17.3 ± 3.0
3.6 11000
Lyubetskaya and Korenaga [61 ] 20 ± 4
4.0 13800
Arevalo et al. [60 ] Based on energetics of mantle convection (“conventional ” scaling ) 31
4.0 10000 30
Turcotte and Schubert [65 ]
Depleted mantle (DM)—MORB source 3.2 ± 0.5
2.5 15600
Workman and Hart [66 ] 4.7 ± 30%
2.9 12800
Salters and Stracke [67 ] 8 ± 20%
2.8 19000
Arevalo and McDonough [68 ]
† Model of Javoy et al. [64 ] is constructed following Javoy's recipe as described in [69 ]. *Calculation of radiogenic power for DM estimates assumes that the entire mantle has DM composition.