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Earth’s volatile-element jigsaw

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Earth’s formation by the accretion of volatile-rich carbonaceous chondrite-like materials, without a need for exotic building blocks or secondary volatile loss, is supported by recognition of a plateau pattern for highly volatile elements.

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Fig. 1: Cartoon plots of depletion of volatile-element abundances in carbonaceous chondrites with increasing volatility and the application to Earth.

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Wang, Z. Earth’s volatile-element jigsaw. Nat. Geosci. 12, 500–502 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0397-4

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