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Comment to paper: 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 by G.J. Love, P.D. Kinny and C.R.L. Friend (Contr Mineral Petrol (2004) 146:620–636)

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Comments and suggestions by D. Moser and journal reviewers A. Crane and N. Kelley are greatly appreciated.

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Corfu, F. Comment to paper: 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 by G.J. Love, P.D. Kinny and C.R.L. Friend (Contr Mineral Petrol (2004) 146:620–636). Contrib Mineral Petrol 153, 483–488 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-006-0157-5

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