Element Crust. Granite Basalt Shale Seawater
o 46.4 108
28.2 x 108
8.2 x 10
5.6 X 108
4.1 X 108
24x 108
2.3 x 100
2.1 Xx 108
Ti 5,700
H 1,400
P 1,050
Mn 950
Fr 025
Ba 425
sr 35
8 260
c 200
te 165
v 135
a 130
cr 100
Rb 0 150 30 140% 01g
Ni Hy 0.5 150 95 0.002
an. 70 40 100 80 0.01
Ce er sit ast 50 32x 10+
cu 55 10 100 8 0.003,
Y 33 40 25 30 0.0003
Na Py 35° 20" py 92x
La 25 40 10 40 12X10"
Co 25 1 48 20 0.0001
Se 2 5 38 10 0.00008
i 20 30 10 60 or
N 20 20 20 60 05
Nb 20 20 20 20 0.00001
Ga 15 18 2 1s* 0.00003
¥D 1.9 2 2 Ea 000003
B 0 B 5 100 46
Th 9.6 7 22 nl 0.00008
Sm Tat oat 53° 65 LT X10-*
Ga Tat oat 5.3* 65 24X10
Pr 6.5% Bt 40° 5 26X10
Dy 5.2% Tt 3.8* 45 29X10"
Yb 3 3.8" at 3 2.0 x 10-*Element Crust, Basalt Shale Seawater
Ht 3 4 2 6
Gs 3 5 i a 0.0005,
Be 28 5 05 3 6x 10-7
Er 28 3.8" 21t 25 24x 10-6
u 27 48 06 32 0.003
Br 25 1s 36 6 co
Sn 2 3 1 6 0.0008
As Ls Ls 2 66 0.003,
Ge 1s Ls 1s 2 0.00006
Mo Ls 2 1 2 0.01
w Ls 2 1 2 0.0001,
Ho 15* 1.9" Lat i 8.8 x 107
Eu 12 1 ost ‘ 46x 10-7
Tb as 15 ost 09
Lu ost it o.6* OT 48x 107
Tm 0.25" 03" 2 025 5.2.x 107
I 05 05 05 1 0.06
1 0.45, 0.75 on 1 <0.00001
ca 02 02 02 03 0.00011,
Sb 02 02 02 1s 0.0005,
Bi ow os os oo 0.00002
In OL o1 o1 0.05 <0.02
Hg 0.08 0.08 0.08 o4 0.00008
Ag 0.07 0.04 on o1 0.00004
Se 0.05 0.05 0.05 06 0.0004
Au, Pt metals, Re, and Te are less than. 0.05 ppm in rocks and less than 0.00001 ppm in
‘seawater. Concentrations of inert gases in seawater: He, 5 X 10-* ppm; Ne, 0.0001 ppm;
‘Ar, 08 ppm: Ke, 0.0003 ppm; Xe, 0.0001 ppm.
‘Sources: For crust, granite, and basalt, data chiefly from 8. R, Taylor, Abundance of,
chemical elements in the continental erist, Geochim. ef Cosmochim. Acta, vol. 28, pp.
1280-1281, 1964. Values marked with asterisks from KK, Turekian and KH, Wedepobi,
Distribution of elements in some major units of the earth's erust, Geol. Soe. America Bull,
vol. 72, p. 186, 1964. For shale, data from A. P. Vinogradov, Srednive soderzhaniya
himicheskkikh lementov v glavaykh tipakh jzverzhennykh gornykhporod zeminoi kory,
Geothinina, vol. 196 pp 30-96; few vals (marked with ssterita) fom Turkian
Stud Welepunt, Yor seawater, dacs from J. F. Riley and t. Skierow (eds), "cnemicet
‘Occanography," vol I, pp- 164-165, Academic Press Inc, New York, 1965 (table com-
piled by ED. Goldberg)
‘Notes: The heading “rust” means the continental crust only, and this part ofthe crust
sd to be made up of roughly equal parte of basalt and granite. “Shale” includes
lays a8 well as shales, but not the fine-grained sediments of the deep sea. “‘Sea-
water" is normal surface water with a ehlorinity of 19%