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Oxygen and strontium isotope data for 25 late Caledonian granite plutons emplaced between ∼435 and 390 Myr indicate that the parent magmas were hybrids, derived from partial fusion of mantle-like material and varying proportions of a crustal component.
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Harmon, R., Halliday, A. Oxygen and strontium isotope relationships in the British late Caledonian granites. Nature 283, 21–25 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1038/283021a0
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