American Mineralogist
MSA DANA MEDAL LECTURE
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DANA LECTURE: Rates of Fe, Mg, Mn, and Ca diffusion in garnet
William D. Carlson
REGULAR ARTICLE
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An FTIR study of hydrogen in anorthoclase and associated melt inclusions
Sheila J. Seaman, M. Darby Dyar, Nebojsa Marinkovic, and Nelia W. Dunbar
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First occurrence of iodine in natural sulfosalts: The case of mutnovskite, Pb2AsS3(I,Cl,Br), a new mineral from the Mutnovsky volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Federation
Michael Zelenski, Toni Bali-uni, Luca Bindi, Anna Garavelli, Emil Makovicky, Daniela Pinto, and Filippo Vurro
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The real topological configuration of the extra-framework content in alkali-poor beryl: A multi-methodological study
G. Diego Gatta, F. Nestola, G.D. Bromiley, and S. Mattauch
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A low-temperature heat-capacity study of synthetic anhydrous Mg-cordierite (Mg2Al4Si5O18)
Igor E. Paukov, Yulia A. Kovalevskaya, Nouri-Said Rahmoun, and Charles A. Geiger
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Dissolution kinetics of pyrochlore ceramics for the disposition of plutonium
Jonathan P. Icenhower, Denis M. Strachan, B. Pete McGrail, Randall D. Scheele, Elsa A. Rodriguez, Jackie L. Steele, and Virginia L. Legore
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Oxy-amphibole equilibria in Ti-bearing calcic amphiboles: Experimental investigation and petrologic implications for mantle-derived amphiboles
Robert K. Popp, Heather A. Hibbert, and William M. Lamb
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Fe2+/Fe3+ charge ordering in contact layers of lamellar magnetism: Bond valence arguments
Peter Robinson, Richard J. Harrison, and Suzanne A. McEnroe
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Calcic amphibole growth and compositions in calc-alkaline magmas: Evidence from the Motru Dike Swarm (Southern Carpathians, Romania)
Olivier Féménias, Jean-Claude C. Mercier, Collin Nkono, Hervé Diot, Tudor Berza, Mihai Tatu, and Daniel Demaiffe
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Anomalously high Fe contents in rehomogenized olivine-hosted melt inclusions from oxidized magmas
Michael C. Rowe, Roger L. Nielsen, and Adam J. R. Kent
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The rate of ferrihydrite transformation to goethite via the Fe(II) pathway
Nathan Yee, Samuel Shaw, Liane G. Benning, and T. Hien Nguyen
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Phase transitions and volumetric properties of cryolite, Na3AlF6: Differential thermal analysis to 100 MPa
David Dolej and Don R. Baker
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The crystal structure of dissakisite-(La) and structural variations after annealing of radiation damage
Barbara Lavina, Susanna Carbonin, Umberto Russo, and Simone Tumiati
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Effects of metal protection coils on thermocouple EMF in multi-anvil high-pressure experiments
Yu Nishihara, Kyoko N. Matsukage, and Shun-ichiro Karato
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First-principles study of the OH-stretching modes of gibbsite
Etienne Balan, Michele Lazzeri, Guillaume Morin, and Francesco Mauri
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In situ X-ray diffraction study of phase transitions of FeTiO3 at high pressures and temperatures using a large-volume press and synchrotron radiation
Li Chung Ming, Young-Ho Kim, T. Uchida, Y. Wang, and M. Rivers
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High-pressure proton disorder in brucite
Mainak Mookherjee and Lars Stixrude
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Microhardness, toughness, and modulus of Mohs scale minerals
Margaret E. Broz, Robert F. Cook, and Donna L. Whitney
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Effects of pH, temperature, and aqueous organic material on the dissolution kinetics of meta-autunite minerals, (Na, Ca)2-1[(UO2)(PO4)]2·3H2O
Dawn M. Wellman, Jonathan P. Icenhower, Amy P. Gamerdinger, and Steven W. Forrester
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Interstratified kaolinite-smectite: Nature of the layers and mechanism of smectite kaolinization
Teresa Dudek, Javier Cuadros, and Saverio Fiore
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The kinetics of the α→β transition in synthetic nickel monosulfide
Haipeng Wang, Allan Pring, Yung Ngothai, and Brian O’Neill
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An electron microprobe analysis, secondary ion mass spectrometry, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction study of phlogopites from Mt. Vulture, Potenza, Italy: Consideration of cation partitioning
Ernesto Mesto, Emanuela Schingaro, Fernando Scordari, and Luisa Ottolini
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Unique W-rich alloy of Os and Ir and associated Fe-rich alloy of Os, Ru, and Ir from California
Andrei Y. Barkov, Michael E. Fleet, Robert F. Martin, Mark N. Feinglos, and Bart Cannon
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Schreyerite, V2Ti3O9: New occurrence and crystal structure
Nicola Döbelin, Leonid Z. Reznitsky, Evgeny V. Sklyarov, Thomas Armbruster, and Olaf Medenbach
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A cold-sealing capsule design for synthesis of fluid inclusions and other hydrothermal experiments in a piston-cylinder apparatus
Alistair C. Hack and John A. Mavrogenes
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Complete solid-solution between Na3Al2(PO4)3 and Mg3Al2(SiO4)3 garnets at high pressure
Fabrice Brunet, Vincent Bonneau, and Tetsuo Irifune
NEW MINERAL NAMES
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NEW MINERAL NAMES
Andrew J. Locock, Paula C. Piilonen, T. Scott Ercit, And Ralph Rowe
BOOK REVIEW
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BOOK REVIEW: ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF CLAYS, volume 10 of the Clay Minerals Society Workshop Lectures (Alanah Fitch, Ed). The Clay Minerals Society, Aurora, CO, 2003, 205 pp.
Patrick Longmire
ERRATA
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ERRATUM: Early diagenetic origin of Al phosphate-sulfate minerals (woodhouseite and crandallite series) in terrestrial sandstones, Nova Scotia, Canada by G. Pe-Piper and L.M. Dolansky (vol. 90, no. 0809, 1434-1441, 2005)
DEPOSIT ITEMS
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First occurrence of iodine in natural sulfosalts: The case of mutnovskite, Pb2AsS3(I,Cl,Br), a new mineral from the Mutnovsky volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Federation
Michael Zelenski, Toni Bali-uni, Luca Bindi, Anna Garavelli, Emil Makovicky, Daniela Pinto, and Filippo Vurro
Table 6 – List of observed and calculated structure factors for mutnovskite
AM-06-001.zip zipped
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The real topological configuration of the extra-framework content in alkali-poor beryl: A multi-methodological study
G. Diego Gatta, F. Nestola, G.D. Bromiley, and S. Mattauch
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Fe2+/Fe3+ charge ordering in contact layers of lamellar magnetism: Bond valence arguments
Peter Robinson, Richard J. Harrison, and Suzanne A. McEnroe
Table 5. Bond-valence assessment of charge ordering in metastable Fe-Ti ordered Ilm 50
AM-06-002.zip zipped
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