American Mineralogist
LETTERS
326
An in situ high-pressure NMR study of sodium coordination environment compressibility in albite glass
Sarah J. Gaudio, Trenton G. Edwards and Sabyasachi Sen
330
Hydrothermal synthesis and crystal structure of AlSO4(OH): A titanite-group member
Alan J. Anderson, Hexiong Yang and Robert T. Downs
EDITORIAL
1
The American Mineralogist at 100 years, and a mineralogy renaissance
Keith Putirka
HIGHLIGHTS AND BREAKTHROUGHS
3
At the blurry edge of mineralogy
Peter J. Heaney
4
Mineral evolution and Earth history
Dwight C. Bradley
OUTLOOKS IN EARTH AND PLANETARY MATERIALS
6
Franciscan geologic history constrained by tectonic/olistostromal high-grade metamafic blocks in the iconic California Mesozoic-Cenozoic accretionary complex
W.G. Ernst
14
The rapid expansion of environmental mineralogy in unconventional ways: Beyond the accepted definition of a mineral, the latest technology, and using nature as our guide
Manuel A. Caraballo, F. Marc Michel and Michael F. Hochella Jr.
CROSSROADS IN EARTH AND PLANETARY MATERIALS
26
Microelectronic junctions in arsenian pyrite due to impurity and mixed sulfide heterogeneity
Jamie S. Laird, Colin M. MacRae, Angela Halfpenny, Ross Large and Chris G. Ryan
FLUIDS IN THE CRUST
35
The structure of water-saturated carbonate melts
Dionysis I. Foustoukos and Bjorn O. Mysen
47
In-situ measurements of fluorine and chlorine speciation and partitioning between melts and aqueous fluids in the Na2O-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O system
Celia Dalou, Bjorn O. Mysen and Dionysis Foustoukos
CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY OF EARTH'S MANTLE
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
WHAT LURKS IN THE MARTIAN ROCKS AND SOIL? INVESTIGATIONS OF SULFATES, PHOSPHATES, AND PERCHLORATES
66
Mid-infrared emission spectroscopy and visible/near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy of Fe-sulfate minerals
Melissa D. Lane, Janice L. Bishop, M. Darby Dyar, Takahiro Hiroi, Stanley A. Mertzman, David L. Bish, Penelope L. King and A. Deanne Rogers
REGULAR ARTICLE
83
Megacrystic zircon with planar fractures in miaskite-type nepheline pegmatites formed at high pressures in the lower crust (Ivrea Zone, southern Alps, Switzerland)
Urs Schaltegger, Alexey Ulianov, Othmar Müntener, Maria Ovtcharova, Irena Peytcheva, Pierre Vonlanthen, Torsten Vennemann, Marco Antognini and Fabio Girlanda
95
Tourmaline as a petrogenetic monitor of the origin and evolution of the Berry-Havey pegmatite (Maine, U.S.A.)
Encarnación Roda-Robles, William Simmons, Alfonso Pesquera, Pedro P. Gil-Crespo, James Nizamoff and José Torres-Ruiz
110
Applications of Hirshfeld surfaces to mineralogy: An example of alumohydrocalcite, and the classification of the dundasite group minerals
Marcin Stachowicz, Jan Parafiniuk, Claire Wilson, Simon Coles and Krzysztof Woźniak
120
Optical absorption anisotropy of high-density, wide-gap, high-hardness SiO2 polymorphs seifertite, stishovite, and coesite
Kamil Klier, Jeffery A. Spirko and Kai M. Landskron
130
The system Na2CO3-FeCO3 at 6 GPa and its relation to the system Na2CO3-FeCO3-MgCO3
Anton Shatskiy, Sergey V. Rashchenko, Eiji Ohtani, Konstantin D. Litasov, Mikhail V. Khlestov, Yuri M. Borzdov, Igor N. Kupriyanov, Igor S. Sharygin and Yuri N. Palyanov
138
Chlorine-hydroxyl diffusion in pargasitic amphibole
Wen Su, Don R. Baker, Luping Pu, Liping Bai, Xin Liu and Cedrick O’Shaughnessy
148
The use of cation-cation and anion-anion bonds to augment the bond-valence model
Matthew C.F. Wander, Barry R. Bickmore, Matthew Davis, W. Joel Johansen, Charles Andros and Larissa Lind
160
AIM analysis and the form of the bond-valence equation
Matthew C.F. Wander, Barry R. Bickmore, Larissa Lind, Charles Andros, John Hunt, Hannah Checketts and Tyler Goodell
172
Atomistic simulation on mixing thermodynamics of calcite-smithsonite solid solutions
Xin Liu, Xiancai Lu, Xiandong Liu and Huiqun Zhou
181
Combined geochemistry and geochronology constrains coupled subduction of oceanic and continental crust in the Huwan shear zone, central China
Hao Cheng and Jeffrey D. Vervoort
195
Near-infrared investigation of folding sepiolite
Maria Tsampodimou, Vanessa-Jane Bukas, Elizabeth T. Stathopoulou, Vassilis Gionis and Georgios D. Chryssikos
203
First-principles study of sulfur isotope fractionation in pyrite-type disulfides
Shanqi Liu, Yongbing Li, Jianming Liu and Yaolin Shi
209
Tetrataenite in terrestrial rock
Bibhuranjan Nayak and Franz Michael Meyer
215
Thermo-compression of pyrope-grossular garnet solid solutions: Non-linear compositional dependence
Wei Du, Simon Martin Clark and David Walker
223
Phase relationships in the system K2CO3-CaCO3 at 6 GPa and 900–1450 °C
Anton Shatskiy, Yuri M. Borzdov, Konstantin D. Litasov, Igor S. Sharygin, Yuri N. Palyanov and Eiji Ohtani
233
Trace-element partitioning between plagioclase, alkali feldspar, Ti-magnetite, biotite, apatite, and evolved potassic liquids from Campi Flegrei (Southern Italy)
Lorenzo Fedele, Michele Lustrino, Leone Melluso, Vincenzo Morra, Alberto Zanetti and Riccardo Vannucci
250
Synthetic and natural ammonium-bearing tourmaline
Bernd Wunder, Eleanor Berryman, Birgit Plessen, Dieter Rhede, Monika Koch-Müller and Wilhelm Heinrich
SPECIAL COLLECTION: GLASSES, MELTS, AND FLUIDS, AS TOOLS FOR UNDERSTANDING VOLCANIC PROCESSES AND HAZARDS
257
Anhydrite stability and the effect of Ca on the behavior of sulfur in felsic magmas
Ruifang Huang and Hans Keppler
ACTINIDES IN GEOLOGY, ENERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
267
Nuragheite, Th(MoO4)2·H2O, the second natural thorium molybdate and its relationships to ichnusaite and synthetic Th(MoO4)2
Paolo Orlandi, Cristian Biagioni, Luca Bindi and Stefano Merlino
SPECIAL COLLECTION: APATITE: A COMMON MINERAL, UNCOMMONLY VERSATILE
274
Structural effects on incorporated water in carbonated apatites
Jennifer E. Goldenberg, Zachary Wilt, Demetra V. Schermerhorn, Jill D. Pasteris and Claude H. Yoder
281
New constraints on electron-beam induced halogen migration in apatite
Michael J. Stock, Madeleine C.S. Humphreys, Victoria C. Smith, Roger D. Johnson, David M. Pyle and EIMF
THE SECOND CONFERENCE ON THE LUNAR HIGHLANDS CRUST AND NEW DIRECTIONS
294
Origin of the lunar highlands Mg-suite: An integrated petrology, geochemistry, chronology, and remote sensing perspective
Charles K. Shearer, Stephen M. Elardo, Noah E. Petro, Lars E. Borg and Francis M. McCubbin
NEW MINERALS
334
NEW MINERAL NAMES
BOOK REVIEW
340
Thermal Remote Sensing of Active Volcanoes: A User’s Manual
Matthew Watson
DEPOSIT ITEMS
26
Microelectronic junctions in arsenian pyrite due to impurity and mixed sulfide heterogeneity
Jamie S. Laird, Colin M. MacRae, Angela Halfpenny, Ross Large and Chris G. Ryan
35
The structure of water-saturated carbonate melts
Dionysis I. Foustoukos and Bjorn O. Mysen
66
Mid-infrared emission spectroscopy and visible/near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy of Fe-sulfate minerals
Melissa D. Lane, Janice L. Bishop, M. Darby Dyar, Takahiro Hiroi, Stanley A. Mertzman, David L. Bish, Penelope L. King and A. Deanne Rogers
83
Megacrystic zircon with planar fractures in miaskite-type nepheline pegmatites formed at high pressures in the lower crust (Ivrea Zone, southern Alps, Switzerland)
Urs Schaltegger, Alexey Ulianov, Othmar Müntener, Maria Ovtcharova, Irena Peytcheva, Pierre Vonlanthen, Torsten Vennemann, Marco Antognini and Fabio Girlanda
110
Applications of Hirshfeld surfaces to mineralogy: An example of alumohydrocalcite, and the classification of the dundasite group minerals
Marcin Stachowicz, Jan Parafiniuk, Claire Wilson, Simon Coles and Krzysztof Woźniak
120
Optical absorption anisotropy of high-density, wide-gap, high-hardness SiO2 polymorphs seifertite, stishovite, and coesite
Kamil Klier, Jeffery A. Spirko and Kai M. Landskron
130
The system Na2CO3-FeCO3 at 6 GPa and its relation to the system Na2CO3-FeCO3-MgCO3
Anton Shatskiy, Sergey V. Rashchenko, Eiji Ohtani, Konstantin D. Litasov, Mikhail V. Khlestov, Yuri M. Borzdov, Igor N. Kupriyanov, Igor S. Sharygin and Yuri N. Palyanov
148
The use of cation-cation and anion-anion bonds to augment the bond-valence model
Matthew C.F. Wander, Barry R. Bickmore, Matthew Davis, W. Joel Johansen, Charles Andros and Larissa Lind
160
AIM analysis and the form of the bond-valence equation
Matthew C.F. Wander, Barry R. Bickmore, Larissa Lind, Charles Andros, John Hunt, Hannah Checketts and Tyler Goodell
181
Combined geochemistry and geochronology constrains coupled subduction of oceanic and continental crust in the Huwan shear zone, central China
Hao Cheng and Jeffrey D. Vervoort
209
Tetrataenite in terrestrial rock
Bibhuranjan Nayak and Franz Michael Meyer
233
Trace-element partitioning between plagioclase, alkali feldspar, Ti-magnetite, biotite, apatite, and evolved potassic liquids from Campi Flegrei (Southern Italy)
Lorenzo Fedele, Michele Lustrino, Leone Melluso, Vincenzo Morra, Alberto Zanetti and Riccardo Vannucci
267
Nuragheite, Th(MoO4)2·H2O, the second natural thorium molybdate and its relationships to ichnusaite and synthetic Th(MoO4)2
Paolo Orlandi, Cristian Biagioni, Luca Bindi and Stefano Merlino
281
New constraints on electron-beam induced halogen migration in apatite
Michael J. Stock, Madeleine C.S. Humphreys, Victoria C. Smith, Roger D. Johnson, David M. Pyle and EIMF
330
Hydrothermal synthesis and crystal structure of AlSO4(OH): A titanite-group member
Alan J. Anderson, Hexiong Yang and Robert T. Downs
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