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Reply to the discussion of Galuskin and Galuskina (2023) “Evidence of the anthropogenic origin of the ‘Carmel sapphire’ with enigmatic super-reduced minerals” by Griffin et al. (2023)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2023

Evgeny Galuskin Open the ORCID record for Evgeny Galuskin [Opens in a new window]  and
Irina Galuskina Open the ORCID record for Irina Galuskina [Opens in a new window]
Evgeny Galuskin*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia, Poland
Irina Galuskina*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia, Poland
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Corresponding author: Evgeny Galuskin, Email: [email protected]; Irina Galuskina, Email: [email protected]
Corresponding author: Evgeny Galuskin, Email: [email protected]; Irina Galuskina, Email: [email protected]
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 87 , Issue 4 , August 2023 , pp. 635 - 638
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Mineralogical Society of the United Kingdom and Ireland

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