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Timing of magmatism and metamorphism in the Gruinard Bay area of the Lewisian Gneiss Complex: comparison with the Assynt Terrane and implications for terrane accretion—reply

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  1. 45 Stanway Road, Risinghurst, Headington, Oxford, OX3 8HU, UK

    C. R. L. Friend

  2. Department of Applied Geology, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987, Perth, 6845, Australia

    P. D. Kinny

  3. URS Australia Pty Ltd, 20 Terrace Road, East Perth, 6004, Australia

    G. J. Love

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Friend, C.R.L., Kinny, P.D. & Love, G.J. Timing of magmatism and metamorphism in the Gruinard Bay area of the Lewisian Gneiss Complex: comparison with the Assynt Terrane and implications for terrane accretion—reply. Contrib Mineral Petrol 153, 489–492 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-006-0156-6

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