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WE welcome the preceding communication by Dr. A. H. Clark, which does much to clarify the problem of low-temperature pyrrhotites. We wish to point out that our only intention was to question the use of experimentally inverted monoclinic pyrrhotite as a geological thermometer (Buseck1, Kullerud et al.2) and to show that in some natural occurrences the use of inverted monoclinic pyrrhotite produced results at variance with independent temperature data obtained from fluid inclusions.
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Buseck, P. R., Annual Report of the Director of the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution, Washington, Year Book 61, 161 (1962).
Kullerud, G., Doe, B. R., Buseck, P. R., and Tröften, P. F., Ann. Rept. Director Geophys. Lab., Carnegie Inst., Washington Year Book 62, 210 (1963).
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SAWKINS, F., DUNHAM, A. & HIRST, D. Iron-deficient Low-temperature Pyrrhotite. Nature 205, 793 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205793a0
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