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Manuella, F.C., Scribano, V., Carbone, S. et al. Reply to “Comment on Manuella et al. ‘The Hyblean xenolith suite (Sicily): an unexpected legacy of the Ionian–Tethys realm’ by Beccaluva et al. (2015)”. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 104, 1685–1691 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-015-1197-8

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