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It is the purpose of this paper to point out the similarity of the magmatic products in the circum-Caribbean region, and to show the geologic objections to the hypothesis of the production of sialic magmas by melting of the root of a sialic crust. These objections were presented only from the viewpoint of a geologist. They may show the necessity of other hypotheses as have been developed byEwing, Gorshkov, Hess, Donnelly, Wilson and others.
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Weyl, R. Volcanoes and volcanic rocks in central America and the west Indies. Bull Volcanol 31, 3–12 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02597001
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