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Earth's volatile element abundances (e.g., sulfur, zinc, indium and lead) provide constraints on fundamental processes such as planetary accretion, differentiation, and the delivery of volatile species, like water, which contributed to Earth becoming a habitable planet. The composition of the silicate Earth suggests chemical affinity but isotopic disparity to carbonaceous chondrites, meteorites that record the earliest element fractionations in the protoplanetary disk. However, the volatile element depletion pattern of the silicate Earth is obscured by core formation. Another key problem is the overabundance of indium, which could not be reconciled with any known chondrite group. Here we complement recently published volatile element abundances for carbonaceous chondrites with high precision sulfur, selenium, and tellurium data. We show that both Earth and carbonaceous chondrites exhibit a unique hockey stick volatile element depletion pattern where volatile elements with low condensation temperatures (750 - 500 K) are unfractionated from each other. This abundance plateau accounts for the apparent overabundance of indium in the silicate Earth without the need of exotic building materials or vaporization from precursors or during the Moon-forming impact and suggests the accretion of 10-15 % CI-like material before core formation ceased. Finally, more accurate estimates of volatile element abundances in the core and bulk Earth can now be provided.

Earth’s volatile element depletion pattern inherited from a carbonaceous chondrite-like source