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Fig. 1: 03.14 by Lucía Pérez-Díaz.

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The authors thank J. van Hunen, M. Allen and J. Jenkins for discussions.

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  1. Durham University, Durham, UK

    Fabian B. Wadsworth

  2. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

    Jérémie Vasseur & Iphigenia Anagnostopoulos

  3. Neftex, Halliburton, Abingdon, UK

    Lucía Pérez-Díaz

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Wadsworth, F.B., Vasseur, J., Anagnostopoulos, I. et al. Estimating pi using geoscience. Nat. Geosci. 15, 246–247 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00928-z

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