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Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Table 1 Terrestrial nitrogen reservoirs (modified after Goldblatt et al. 2009; Palya et al. 2011)

From: Nitrogen in the Earth: abundance and transport

Reservoir

% in reservoir

Atmosphere

27.0

Continental crust

14.2

Oceanic crust

2.2

Mantle

56.7

Oceans

0.005

Biomass (incl. soil, vegetation, and marine biota)

0.000062

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