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Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volume 450, 15 September 2016, Pages 409-412
Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Reply to Comment on “Pervasive remagnetization of detrital zircon host rocks in the Jack Hills, Western Australia and implications for records of the early dynamo”

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Highlights

  • All of Weiss et al. (2015)'s Jack Hills field tests failed or were inconclusive.

  • Hadean zircon host rocks likely pervasively remagnetized at 1078–1070 Ma.

  • The ages of the Jack Hills zircons' magnetizations are essentially unknown.

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