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Comment on “The beginnings of hydrous mantle wedge melting”, CB Till, TL Grove, AC Withers, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, DOI 10.1007/s00410-011-0692-6

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  1. School of Earth Sciences and Centre for Ore Deposit Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, 7001, Australia

    David H. Green

  2. Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia

    Anja Rosenthal

  3. Department of Data Processing, Eötvös Loránd Geophysical Institute of Hungary, Columbus U. 17-23, Budapest, 1145, Hungary

    István Kovács

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Green, D.H., Rosenthal, A. & Kovács, I. Comment on “The beginnings of hydrous mantle wedge melting”, CB Till, TL Grove, AC Withers, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, DOI 10.1007/s00410-011-0692-6. Contrib Mineral Petrol 164, 1077–1081 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-012-0802-0

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