American Mineralogist
LETTER
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Closure in crystal size distributions (CSD), verification of CSD calculations, and the significance of CSD fans
Michael D. Higgins
176
Icosahedral domain structure of framboidal pyrite
Hiroaki Ohfuji and Junji Akai
REGULAR ARTICLE
1
Study on adsorption of submicrometer gold on kaolinite by quantum chemistry calculations
Hong Hanlie, Min Xinmin, and Fu Zhengyi
5
Image distortion in scanning probe microscopy
K. Henriksen and S.L.S. Stipp
17
Multiple length scale growth spirals on metamorphic graphite {001} surfaces studied by atomic force microscopy
John Rakovan and John A. Jaszczak
25
29Si MAS NMR study of diopside-Ca-Tschermak clinopyroxenes: Detecting both tetrahedral and octahedral Al substitution
Roberta L. Flemming and Robert W. Luth
37
Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopic study of synthetic fluorapatite: Part I. Local structural environment and substitution mechanism of Gd3+ at the Ca2 site
Ning Chen, Yuanming Pan, and John A. Weil
47
Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopic study of synthetic fluorapatite: Part II. Gd3+ at the Ca1 site, with a neighboring Ca2 vacancy
Ning Chen, Yuanming Pan, John A. Weil, and Mark J. Nilges
56
Determination of the H3BO3 concentration in fluid and melt inclusions in granite pegmatites by laser Raman microprobe spectroscopy
Rainer Thomas
69
Analysis of natural H2O + CO2 + NaCl fluid inclusions in the hydrothermal diamond anvil cell
Robert S. Darling and William A. Bassett
79
Thermodynamics of the amphiboles: Ca-Mg-Fe2+ quadrilateral
Mark S. Ghiorso and Bernard W. Evans
99
Phase boundary between rutile-type and CaCl2-type germanium dioxide determined by in situ X-ray observations
Shigeaki Ono, Kei Hirose, Norimasa Nishiyama, and Maiko Isshiki
103
The nature, formation, and stability of end-member illite: A hypothesis
Philip E. Rosenberg
108
Determination of melanterite-rozenite and chalcanthite-bonattite equilibria by humidity measurements at 0.1 MPa
I-Ming Chou, R.R. Seal II, and B.S. Hemingway
115
Pressure-temperature paths from garnet-zoning: Evidence for multiple episodes of thrust burial in the hinterland of the Sevier orogenic belt
Thomas D. Hoisch, Michael L. Wells, and Lori M. Hanson
132
Mineralogical and Mössbauer spectroscopic study of a diopside occurring in the marbles of Andranondambo, southern Madagascar
Johan de Grave, Paul de Paepe, Eddy de Grave, Renaud Vochten, and Sigrid G. Eeckhout
142
Correlations of octahedral cations with OH–, O2-, Cl–, and F– in biotite from volcanic rocks and xenoliths
Kevin Righter, M. Darby Dyar, Jeremy S. Delaney, Torsten W. Vennemann, Richard L. Hervig, and Penelope L. King
154
H positions in leucophoenicite, Mn7Si3O12(OH)2: A close relative of the hydrous B phases
Mark D. Welch, William G. Marshall, Nancy L. Ross, and Kevin S. Knight
160
Ominelite, (Fe,Mg)Al3BSiO9 (Fe2+ analogue of grandidierite), a new mineral from porphyritic granite in Japan
Yoshikuni Hiroi, Edward S. Grew, Yoichi Motoyoshi, Donald R. Peacor, Roland C. Rouse, Satoshi Matsubara, Kazumi Yokoyama, Ritsuro Miyawaki, James J. McGee, Shu-Chun Su, Tomokazu Hokada, Noboru Furukawa, and Hiroshi Shibasaki
NEW MINERAL NAMES
181
NEW MINERAL NAMES
John L. Jambor, Edward S. Grew and Andrew C. Roberts
ERRATA
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ERRATUM: Description and crystal structure of turtmannite, a new mineral with a 68 Å period related to mcgovernite by Joël Brugger, Thomas Armbruster, Nicolas Meisser, Clivia Hejny, and Bernard Grobety (v. 86, pages 1494-1505, 2001).
DEPOSIT ITEMS
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Icosahedral domain structure of framboidal pyrite
Hiroaki Ohfuji and Junji Akai
Table 5: Ominelite, (Fe,Mg)Al3BSiO9 (Fe2+ analogue of grandidierite), a new mineral from porphyritic granite in Japan
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