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Acknowledgments

The research in the southern HTB was funded through the Greek Ministry of Development (GSRT) and the European Commission (EC) research programme EPAN (PENED, 2003). The authors wish to acknowledge the Activation Laboratories and StratoChem Laboratories for the geochemical analyses.

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  1. School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia

    A. G. Maravelis

  2. Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil

    G. Pantopoulos

  3. Laboratory of Sedimentology, Department of Geology, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

    P. Tserolas & A. Zelilidis

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Maravelis, A.G., Pantopoulos, G., Tserolas, P. et al. Reply to comment by Caracciolo et al. on: Maravelis et al. 2015. “Accretionary prism-forearc interactions as reflected in the sedimentary fill of southern Thrace Basin (Lemnos Island, NE Greece)”. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 106, 389–394 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-016-1317-0

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