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FOR a number of years we have been investigating the problem of ultrabasic rocks with particular reference to evidence for and against the existence of ultrabasic liquids1,2. We believe that our published results have largely established their existence and this has been further substantiated by Wyllie3, and by Clark and Fyfe4. Although Clark and Fyfe chiefly confine the application of their experimental results to what may be broadly termed the serpentinite problem, their conclusions have a very restricted validity if it is implied that serpentinites are the only type of ultrabasic rock which could have been mainly or wholly liquid. In the ultrabasic rocks investigated by us most of the olivine is not serpentinized.
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DREVER, H., JOHNSTON, R. & THOMAS, C. Ultrabasic Liquids. Nature 192, 157–158 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/192157a0
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