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	41.7	385	3.1	28500	15	Javoy [63]
12.1	49.2	146	3.5	12000	11	Javoy et al. [64]^†
Based on terrestrial rocks and C1 carbonaceous chondrite ratios of RLE abundances
20.8	79.0	264	3.8	12700	20	Hart and Zindler [58]
20.3 ± 20%	79.5±15%	240±20%	3.9	11800	20±4	McDonough and Sun [55]
21.8 ± 15%	83.4±15%	260±15%	3.8	11900	21±3	Palme and O'Neill [59]
17.3 ± 3.0	62.6±10.7	190±40	3.6	11000	16±3	Lyubetskaya and Korenaga [61]
20 ± 4	80±12	280±60	4.0	13800	20±4	Arevalo et al. [60]
Based on energetics of mantle convection (“conventional” scaling)
31	124	310	4.0	10000	30	Turcotte and Schubert [65]
Depleted mantle (DM)—MORB source
3.2 ± 0.5	7.9±1.1	50	2.5	15600	2.8±0.4^∗	Workman and Hart [66]
4.7 ± 30%	13.7±30%	60±28%	2.9	12800	4.1±1.2^∗	Salters and Stracke [67]
8 ± 20%	22±20%	152±20%	2.8	19000	7.5±1.5^∗	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.