Silicon and Ge in the deep sea deduced from Si isotope and Ge measurements in giant glass sponges

Klaus P Jochum1, Jan A. Schuessler2, Gerald Hermann Haug3, Meinrat O Andreae1 and Philip Nissen Froelich4, (1)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, (2)GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (3)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (4)Duke University, Durham, NC, United States