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    Luigi Beccaluva, Gianluca Bianchini, Massimo Coltorti & Claudio Natali

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Beccaluva, L., Bianchini, G., Coltorti, M. et al. Comment on Manuella et al. “The Hyblean xenolith suite (Sicily): an unexpected legacy of the Ionian–Tethys realm”. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 104, 1679–1684 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-015-1196-9

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