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Comment on “40Ar/39Ar dating of tuff vents in the Campi Flegrei caldera (southern Italy): toward a new chronostratigraphic reconstruction of the Holocene volcanic activity” by Fedele et al. [Bull Volcanol; 73:1323–1336]

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This manuscript benefited from comments and an edit of VC Smith (Oxford University, UK).

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  1. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, sezione di Napoli-Osservatorio Vesuviano, via Diocleziano 328, 80124, Naples, Italy

    R. Isaia, M. A. Di Vito & S. de Vita

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Pisa, via Santa Maria 53, 56126, Pisa, Italy

    M. Rosi & A. Sbrana

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Isaia, R., Di Vito, M.A., de Vita, S. et al. Comment on “40Ar/39Ar dating of tuff vents in the Campi Flegrei caldera (southern Italy): toward a new chronostratigraphic reconstruction of the Holocene volcanic activity” by Fedele et al. [Bull Volcanol; 73:1323–1336]. Bull Volcanol 74, 293–296 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-011-0561-1

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