The following is a message forwarded from Dr. Norman Herz:

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>Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:16:49 -0500
>From: "Norm Herz" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "Norm Herz" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "Colleen P. Stapleton" <[log in to unmask]>,
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> <[log in to unmask]>, <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Marbles
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>Tim (et al)
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>Your problem with an Egytian marble was forwarded to me by Colleen
>Stapleton, a graduate student in our department. Running your data,
>d13C=5.27, d18O=-3.17 through the Classical Marble data base (Herz,
>1992, Archaeometry 34, 185-194) and a least squares statistical
program
>(Pentia, 1995, Romanian Journal of Physics 40, 369-379) suggests only
>one possibility. The best choice of source is the lychnites marble of
>the Aegean island of Paros. The statistics show a 46% probability with
>Sardis, the second choice at a distant 5% probability.
>
>Norman Herz
>Geology Department
>University of Georgia
>Athens, GA 30602
>
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Colleen P. Stapleton
Department of Geology
University of Georgia
Athens, GA  30602
USA

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