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Floating stones off El Hierro, Canary Islands: xenoliths of pre-island sedimentary origin in the early products of the October 2011 eruption
V. R. Troll
                                            Dept. of Earth Sciences, CEMPEG, Uppsala University, Sweden
                                        
                                    
                                            Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy
                                        
                                    A. Klügel
                                            Institute of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Germany
                                        
                                    M.-A. Longpré
                                            Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University, Canada
                                        
                                    S. Burchardt
                                            Dept. of Earth Sciences, CEMPEG, Uppsala University, Sweden
                                        
                                    F. M. Deegan
                                            Laboratory for Isotope Geology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
                                        
                                    
                                            Dept. of Earth Sciences, CEMPEG, Uppsala University, Sweden
                                        
                                    J. C. Carracedo
                                            Dept. of Physics (Geology), GEOVOL, University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain
                                        
                                    S. Wiesmaier
                                            Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (LMU), Munich, Germany
                                        
                                    U. Kueppers
                                            Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (LMU), Munich, Germany
                                        
                                    B. Dahren
                                            Dept. of Earth Sciences, CEMPEG, Uppsala University, Sweden
                                        
                                    L. S. Blythe
                                            Dept. of Earth Sciences, CEMPEG, Uppsala University, Sweden
                                        
                                    T. H. Hansteen
                                            Leibniz-Institute for Oceanography, IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany
                                        
                                    C. Freda
                                            Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy
                                        
                                    D. A. Budd
                                            Dept. of Earth Sciences, CEMPEG, Uppsala University, Sweden
                                        
                                    E. M. Jolis
                                            Dept. of Earth Sciences, CEMPEG, Uppsala University, Sweden
                                        
                                    E. Jonsson
                                            Geological Survey of Sweden, Uppsala, Sweden
                                        
                                    
                                            Dept. of Earth Sciences, CEMPEG, Uppsala University, Sweden
                                        
                                    F. C. Meade
                                            School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK
                                        
                                    
                                            Dept. of Earth Sciences, CEMPEG, Uppsala University, Sweden
                                        
                                    C. Harris
                                            Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
                                        
                                    S. E. Berg
                                            Dept. of Earth Sciences, CEMPEG, Uppsala University, Sweden
                                        
                                    L. Mancini
                                            SYRMEP Group, Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A, Basovizza, Trieste, Italy
                                        
                                    M. Polacci
                                            Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Pisa, 56124 Pisa, Italy
                                        
                                    K. Pedroza
                                            Dept. of Earth Sciences, CEMPEG, Uppsala University, Sweden
                                        
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