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LITHOEN

Geochemical reservoir

Seawater

The ocean treated as a geochemical reservoir. Element concentrations in it are governed by solubility and residence time rather than by crustal abundance.

Classification

scope
hydrosphere

How this record is known

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Interpretation
Reached by reasoning from evidence, or produced by a named model.

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What Lithoen records

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InferredGoverned by solubility and residence time, not by crustal abundance.

Element concentrations in seawater are governed by solubility and residence time rather than by crustal abundance: an element abundant in rock may be vanishingly rare in the ocean if it does not stay in solution.

  • method: Follows from the cited distinction between dissolved and particulate transport; Lithoen holds no seawater concentration data.
  • precision note: Recorded as a principle rather than with values, because no seawater concentration datum was verified in Phase 2.

Evidence support: Supported by the cited evidence 2 sources, multiple sources, independence unknown

Evidence: Gosen 2017 Primary authority; British Geological Survey n.d. Primary authority

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Record last updated 2026-09-06. Corrections follow the published corrections policy; superseded claims are retained, never silently edited.