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GERM Database Search Results        
Reservoir Z Element Value Median SD Low High N Unit Info Reference Source(s)
Allende Meteorite 44 Ru 1200           ng/g Grossman & Wasson 1985
CAI Inclusions Allende Meteorite 44 Ru 11.8   0.826       ppm Bischoff & Palme 1987
CI Chondrites 44 Ru 710           ppb McDonough & Sun 1995
CI Chondrites 44 Ru 0.712           ppm Palme & Jones 2004 Anders & Grevesse 1989
CI Chondrites 44 Ru 0.683   0.02049       ppm Palme & Jones 2004 Palme & Beer 1993
Jochum 1996
CI Chondrites 44 Ru 710           ppb McDonough & Sun 1995 Wasson & Kallemeyn 1988
CI Chondrites 44 Ru 712   38.5     9 ppb Anders & Grevesse 1989
CI Chondrites 44 Ru 683   20.49       ppb Palme & O'Neill 2004 Palme & Jones 2004
CI Chondrites 44 Ru 690           ppb McDonough & Sun 1995 Palme 1988
CI Chondrites 44 Ru 1.8   0.04         Palme & Jones 2004
Continental Crust 44 Ru 0.57           ng/g Rudnick & Gao 2004
Continental Crust 44 Ru 0.1           ppb Wedepohl 1995
Continental Crust 44 Ru 0.1           ng/g Rudnick & Gao 2004 Wedepohl 1995
Continental Crust 44 Ru 0.6           ng/g Rudnick & Gao 2004 Rudnick & Fountain 1995
Core 44 Ru 4           ppm McDonough 2004
Core 44 Ru 4           µg/g McDonough 1998
Depleted Mantle 44 Ru 5.7   0.912       ppb Salters & Stracke 2004
Greywackes 44 Ru 0.1           ppb Wedepohl 1995
LL Ordinary Chondrites 44 Ru 500           ng/g Grossman & Wasson 1985
Lower Continental Crust 44 Ru 0.75           ng/g Rudnick & Gao 2004
Manganese Nodules 44 Ru 0.008           ppm Li 1991 Baturin 1988
Marine Pelagic Clay 44 Ru 0.0002           ppm Li 1991 Turekian & Wedepohl 1961
Baturin 1988
Oceans Deep water 44 Ru 0.5           ng/kg Quinby-Hunt & Turekian 1983 Dixon et al. 1966
Oceans Surface water 44 Ru 0.7           ng/kg Quinby-Hunt & Turekian 1983 Dixon et al. 1966
Orgueil Chondrite 44 Ru 714         5 ppb Anders & Grevesse 1989
Orgueil Chondrite 44 Ru 780           ng/g Grossman et al. 1985
Orgueil Chondrite 44 Ru 714         5 ppb Anders & Ebihara 1982
Primitive Mantle 44 Ru 5   1.5       ppb McDonough & Sun 1995
Primitive Mantle 44 Ru 4.55   0.182       ppb Palme & O'Neill 2004
Qingzhen Enstatite Chondrite 44 Ru 1040           ng/g Grossman et al. 1985
Seawater 44 Ru         0.005     Li 1991 Whitfield & Turner 1987
Koide et al. 1986
Koide et al. 1986
Koide et al. 1987

Seawater 44 Ru 0.5           ng/kg Quinby-Hunt & Turekian 1983 Dixon et al. 1966
Silicate Earth 44 Ru 5   1.5       ppb McDonough & Sun 1995
Silicate Earth 44 Ru 0.005           µg/g McDonough 1998
Silicate Earth 44 Ru 0.005           ppm McDonough 2004
Solar Photosphere 44 Ru 1.84   0.07         Anders & Grevesse 1989
Solar Photosphere 44 Ru 1.84   0.07         Palme & Jones 2004 Grevesse & Sauval 1998
Solar System 44 Ru 1.9             Anders & Ebihara 1982 Cameron 1982
Solar System 44 Ru 1.86   0.1     9   Anders & Grevesse 1989
Solar System 44 Ru 1.86   0.10044     9   Anders & Ebihara 1982
Solid Earth 44 Ru 1.3           ppm McDonough 2004
Solid Earth 44 Ru 1.3           µg/g McDonough 1998
Spinel Peridotites 44 Ru 12.4 12 4.1     3 ppb McDonough 1990
Upper Continental Crust 44 Ru 0.34           ng/g Rudnick & Gao 2004 Peucker-Eherenbrink & Jahn 2001
Upper Continental Crust 44 Ru 0.34           ng/g Rudnick & Gao 2004
Upper Continental Crust 44 Ru 0.34   0.02       ng/g Rudnick & Gao 2004 see text
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