Reply to the discussion by Rajesh and Knoper on 'New zircon shock phenomena and their use for dating and reconstruction of large impact structures revealed by electron nanobeam (EBSD, CL, EDS) and isotopic U-Pb and (U-Th)/He analysis of the Vredefort dome'.

In this article the authors' respond to a comment on their article "New zircon shock phenomena and their use for dating and reconstruction of large impact structures revealed by electron nanobeam (EBSD, CL, EDS) and isotopic U-Pb and (U-Th)/He analysis of the Vredefort dome," in the 2011 issue. Accordingly, the authors H.M. Rajesh and M.W. Knoper objected to the interpretation of two zircon U-Pb isotopic data from a pegmatite dyke sample. However, they argue that the zircons were high quality.