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American Mineralogist: International Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials Research

Published Papers: Chemistry and Mineralogy of Earth
Total Results: 25

Volume 102 : February 2017 Issue

321 Ab initio calculations of uranium and thorium storage in CaSiO3-perovskite in the Earth’s lower mantle
Samuel N. Perry, Jeffrey S. Pigott, and Wendy R. Panero

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312 SiC-dominated ultra-reduced mineral assemblage in carbonatitic xenoliths from the Dalihu basalt, Inner Mongolia, China
Detao He, Yongsheng Liu, Changgui Gao, Chunfei Chen, Zhaochu Hu, and Shan Gao

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Volume 101 : December 2016 Issue

2645 Electron diffraction determination of 11.5 Å and HySo structures: Candidate water carriers to the Upper Mantle
Mauro Gemmi, Marco Merlini, Lukáš Palatinus, Patrizia Fumagalli, and Michael Hanfland

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2638 Raman spectroscopy of siderite at high pressure: Evidence for a sharp spin transition
Jan Müller, Sergio Speziale, Ilias Efthimiopoulos, Sandro Jahn, and Monika Koch-Müller

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Volume 101 : October 2016 Issue

2155 Graphite-diamond relations in mantle rocks: Evidence from an eclogitic xenolith from the Udachnaya kimberlite (Siberian Craton)
Denis S. Mikhailenko, Andrey V. Korsakov, Pavel S. Zelenovskiy, and Alexander V. Golovin

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Volume 101 : July 2016 Issue

1560 Incorporation of Fe2+ and Fe3+ in bridgmanite during magma ocean crystallization
Asmaa Boujibar, Nathalie Bolfan-Casanova, Denis Andrault, M. Ali Bouhifd, and Nicolas Trcera

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Volume 101 : February 2016 Issue

277 Some thermodynamic properties of larnite (β-Ca2SiO4) constrained by high T/P experiment and/or theoretical simulation
Zhihua Xiong, Xi Liu, Sean R. Shieh, Sicheng Wang, Linlin Chang, Junjie Tang, Xinguo Hong, Zhigang Zhang, and Hejing Wang

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Volume 101 : January 2016 Issue

71 Ca-Al-silicate inclusions in natural moissanite (SiC)
Simonpietro Di Pierro and Edwin Gnos

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Volume 100 : October 2015 Issue

2330 A possible new Al-bearing hydrous Mg-silicate (23 Å phase) in the deep upper mantle
Nao Cai, Toru Inoue, Kiyoshi Fujino, Hiroaki Ohfuji and Hisayoshi Yurimoto

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2323 P-V-T equation of state and high-pressure behavior of CaCO3 aragonite
Ying Li, Yongtao Zou, Ting Chen, Xuebing Wang, Xintong Qi, Haiyan Chen, Jianguo Du and Baosheng Li

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Volume 100 : May 2015 Issue

1978 Recoil-free fractions of iron in aluminous bridgmanite from temperature-dependent Mössbauer spectra
Jiachao Liu, Bjorn Mysen, Yingwei Fei and Jie Li

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Volume 100 : February 2015 Issue

1084 Quantification of water in majoritic garnet
Sylvia-Monique Thomas, Kathryn Wilson, Monika Koch-Müller, Erik H. Hauri, Catherine McCammon, Steven D. Jacobsen, John Lazarz, Dieter Rhede, Minghua Ren, Neal Blair, and Stephan Lenz

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1076 Influence of hydration on 23Na, 27Al, and 29Si MAS-NMR spectra of sodium saponites and sodium micas
Jesus Sanz, Isabel Sobrados and Jean-Louis Robert

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1065 Calculation of the energetics of water incorporation in majorite garnet
Jeffrey S. Pigott, Kate Wright, Julian D. Gale and Wendy R. Panero

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1059 Optical properties of siderite (FeCO3) across the spin transition: Crossover to iron-rich carbonates in the lower mantle
Sergey S. Lobanov, Alexander F. Goncharov and Konstantin D. Litasov

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1053 First-principles prediction of pressure-enhanced defect segregation and migration at MgO grain boundaries
Bijaya B. Karki, Dipta B. Ghosh and Ashok K. Verma

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Volume 100 : November 2015 Issue

378 In situ observation of the pyroxene-majorite transition in Na2MgSi5O12 using synchrotron radiation and Raman spectroscopy of Na-majorite
Anna Dymshits, Igor Sharygin, Konstantin Litasov, Anton Shatskiy, Pavel Gavryushkin, Eiji Ohtani, Akio Suzuki and Kenichi Funakoshi

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Volume 100 : January 2015 Issue

59 High-pressure high-temperature transitions in MgCr2O4 and crystal structures of new Mg2Cr2O5 and post-spinel MgCr2O4 phases with implications for ultrahigh-pressure chromitites in ophiolites
Takayuki Ishii, Hiroshi Kojitani, Kiyoshi Fujino, Hitoshi Yusa, Daisuke Mori, Yoshiyuki Inaguma, Yoshitaka Matsushita, Kazunari Yamaura and Masaki Akaogi

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Volume 99 : May 2014 Issue

1562 Hexagonal Na0.41[Na0.125Mg0.79Al0.085]2[Al0.79Si0.21]6O12 (NAL phase): Crystal structure refinement and elasticity
Martha G. Pamato, Alexander Kurnosov, Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, Dmytro M. Trots, Razvan Caracas and Daniel J. Frost

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1555 The spin state of iron in Fe3+-bearing Mg-perovskite and its crystal chemistry at high pressure
Izumi Mashino, Eiji Ohtani, Naohisa Hirao, Takaya Mitsui, Ryo Masuda, Makoto Seto, Takeshi Sakai, Suguru Takahashi and Satoshi Nakano

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1544 Experimental determination of melting in the systems enstatite-magnesite and magnesite-calcite from 15 to 80 GPa
Andrew R. Thomson, Michael J. Walter, Oliver T. Lord and Simon C. Kohn

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1537 Evidence for multiple diamondite-forming events in the mantle
Sami Mikhail, Daniel Howell and Francis M. McCubbin

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Volume 99 : July 2014 Issue

1277 Mantle-derived guyanaite in a Cr-omphacitite xenolith from Moses Rock diatreme, Utah
Daniel J. Schulze, Roberta L. Flemming, Patrick H.M. Shepherd and Herwart Helmstaedt

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1270 Identifying the spin transition in Fe2+-rich MgSiO3 perovskite from X-ray diffraction and vibrational spectroscopy
Razvan Caracas, Haruka Ozawa, Kei Hirose, Hirofumi Ishii, Nozomu Hiraoka, Yasuo Ohishi and Naohisa Hirao

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1265 Formation of SiH4 and H2O by the dissolution of quartz in H2 fluid under high pressure and temperature
Ayako Shinozaki, Hiroyuki Kagi, Naoki Noguchi, Hisako Hirai, Hiroaki Ohfuji, Taku Okada, Satoshi Nakano and Takehiko Yagi

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