Dear Friedrich and coauthors,

Thanks for submitting the revised manuscript, which I will recommend for publication after a very minor improvement: In the opening sentence of the introduction, you refer to processes [not being preserved] in the rock record, an important theme. However, your transition into garnet as a recorder of such processes is somewhat abrupt. Could you pick this theme up just before the bullet list at the end of the introduction to introduce the list?

Further, lines 232-240 in the revised paper: Please shorten and restrict to what is directly relevant to your research question.

Thanks a lot,
Florian

Dear Authors,

based on the Topical Editor's report and overall evaluation of the review process, I am pleased to accept this manuscript for publication in Solid Earth.

Many thanks for choosing Solid Earth to publish your research.

Sincerely,

Federico Rossetti