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Published May 6, 2022 | Supplemental Material
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Response to Comment on "Discovery of davemaoite, CaSiO₃-perovskite, as a mineral from the lower mantle"

Abstract

Walter et al. issue a number of critical comments on our report about the discovery of davemaoite to the end that they believe to show that our results do not provide compelling evidence for the presence of davemaoite in the type specimen and that the hosting diamond had formed in the lithosphere. Their claim is based on a misinterpretation of the diffraction data contained in the paper, an insufficient analysis of the compositional data that disregards the three-dimensional distribution of inclusions, and the arbitrary assumption that Earth's mantle shows no lateral variations in temperature, inconsistent with state-of-the-art assessments of mantle temperature variations and with their own published results.

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© 2022 American Association for the Advancement of Science. Submitted 24 January 2022; accepted 19 April 2022. Published online 6 May 2022.

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