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Reply to Discussion: Taconian orogenesis, sedimentation and magmatism in the southern Quebec-northern Vermont Appalachians: Stratrigraphic and detrital mineral record of Iapetan suturing

Stéphane De Souza, Alain Tremblay and Gilles Ruffet
American Journal of Science May 2015, 315 (5) 501-506; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2475/05.2015.05
Stéphane De Souza
* Université du Québec à Montréal, Départment des sciences de la Terre et de l'atmosphère, Casepostale 8888, Succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3P8, Canada
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Alain Tremblay
* Université du Québec à Montréal, Départment des sciences de la Terre et de l'atmosphère, Casepostale 8888, Succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3P8, Canada
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Gilles Ruffet
** CNRS (CNRS/INSU), Université de Rennes 1, Géosciences Rennes, 263 av du général Leclerc, Rennes Cedex, 35042 France
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