American Mineralogist

Volume 93, Issue no. 01 : January 2008

Letter

248 Toward a thermal model for the Skaergaard liquidus
S.A. Morse

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MSA Presidential Address

1   MSA at 100 and why optical mineralogy still matters: The optical properties of talc
Mickey E. Gunter
REGULAR ARTICLES

1 Footemineite, the Mn-analog of atencioite, from the Foote mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, U.S.A., and its relationship with other roscheritegroup minerals
Daniel Atencio, Paulo A. Matioli, Jason B. Smith, Nikita V. Chukanov, José M.V. Coutinho, Ramimiza K. Rastsvetaeva, and Steffen Möckel

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7 Element mobility and scale of mass transport in the formation of quartz veins during regional metamorphism of the Waits River Formation, east-central Vermont
Sarah C. Penniston-Dorland and John M. Ferry

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22 Chemical and physical transfers in an ultramafic rock weathering profile: Part 1. Supergene dissolution of Pt-bearing chromite
Daouda Traoré, Anicet Beauvais, François Chabaux, Chantal Peiffert, Jean-Claude Parisot, Jean-Paul Ambrosi, and Fabrice Colin

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31 Chemical and physical transfers in an ultramafic rock weathering profile: Part 2. Dissolution vs. accumulation of platinum group minerals
Daouda Traoré, Anicet Beauvais, Thierry Augé, Jean Claude Parisot, Fabrice Colin, and Michel Cathelineau

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39 Comparative Raman spectroscopic study on ilmenite-type MgSiO3 (akimotoite), MgGeO3, and MgTiO3 (geikielite) at high temperatures and high pressures
Taku Okada, Toshiharu Narita, Takaya Nagai, and Takamitsu Yamanaka

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48 A low-pressure–high-temperature technique for the piston-cylinder
Gordon Moore, Kurt Roggensack, and Stan Klonowski

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53 Pressure-induced structural deformation and elastic behavior of wairakite
Silvia Ori, Simona Quartieri, Giovanna Vezzalini, and Vladimir Dmitriev

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63 Metamorphic vanadian-chromian silicate mineralization in carbon-rich amphibole schists from the Malé Karpaty Mountains, Western Carpathians, Slovakia
Pavel Uher, Martin Kováčik, Michal Kubiš, Alexander Shtukenberg, and Daniel Ozdín

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74 High-temperature deformation of volcanic materials in the presence of water
G. Robert, J.K. Russell, D. Giordano, and C. Romano

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81 Menezesite, the first natural heteropolyniobate, from Cajati, São Paulo, Brazil: Description and crystal structure
Daniel Atencio, José M.V. Coutinho, Antonio C. Doriguetto, Yvonne P. Mascarenhas, Javier Ellena, and Viviane C. Ferrari

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88 Single-crystal X-ray and Raman investigation on melanophlogite from Varano Marchesi (Parma, Italy)
Mario Tribaudino, Andrea Artoni, Christian Mavris, Danilo Bersani, Pier Paolo Lottici, and Daniele Belletti

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95 Direnzoite, [NaK6MgCa2(Al13Si47O120)·36H2O], a new zeolite from Massif Central (France): Description and crystal structure
E. Galli and A.F. Gualtieri

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103 On twinning and microstructures in calcite and dolomite
Ann-Kristin Larsson and Andrew G. Christy

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114 Density functional calculations of the electronic structure and optical properties of aluminosilicate polymorphs (Al2SiO5)
Sitaram Aryal, Paul Rulis, and W.Y. Ching

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124 Crystal-size distribution and composition of garnets in eclogites from the Dabie orogen, central China
Hao Cheng, Zuyi Zhou, and Eizo Nakamura

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134 Cation order/disorder behavior and crystal chemistry of pyrope-grossular garnets: An 17O 3QMAS and 27Al MAS NMR spectroscopic study
Kimberly E. Kelsey, Jonathan F. Stebbins, Lin-Shu Du, Jed L. Mosenfelder, Paul D. Asimow, and Charles A. Geiger

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144 Analytical transmission electron microscopy study of a natural MORB sample assemblage transformed at high pressure and high temperature
Angèle Ricolleau, Guillaume Fiquet, Ahmed Addad, Nicolas Menguy, Christian Vanni, Jean-Philippe Perrillat, Isabelle Daniel, Hervé Cardon, and Nicolas Guignot

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154 Barioperovskite, BaTiO3, a new mineral from the Benitoite Mine, California
Chi Ma and George R. Rossman

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158 The nature of unusual luminescence in natural calcite CaCO3
Michael Gaft, Lev Nagli, Gerard Panczer, Glenn Waychunas, and Naomi Porat

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168 Carbonate in igneous and metamorphic fluorapatite: Two type A and two type B substitutions
R. Chris Tacker

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177 The crystal structure of diopside at pressure to 10 GPa
Richard M. Thompson and Robert T. Downs

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187 Electron backscatter diffraction analysis of zircon: A systematic assessment of match unit characteristics and pattern indexing optimization
Steven M. Reddy, Nicholas E. Timms, and Bruce M. Eglington

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198 Compressibility trends of the clinopyroxenes, and in-situ high-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction study of jadeite
Andrew C. McCarthy, Robert T. Downs, and Richard M. Thompson

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210 Synthesis and characterization of low-OH–fluor-chlorapatite: A single-crystal XRD and NMR spectroscopic study
Francis M. McCubbin, Harris E. Mason, Hyunsoo Park, Brian L. Phillips, John B. Parise, Hanna Nekvasil, and Donald H. Lindsley

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217 Pressure dependence of the hydrogen-bond geometry in topaz-OD from neutron powder diffraction
K. Komatsu, H. Kagi, W.G. Marshall, T. Kuribayashi, J.B. Parise, and Y. Kudoh

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235 The origin of S4+ detected in silicate glasses by XANES
Max Wilke, Pedro J. Jugo, Kevin Klimm, Jean Susini, Roman Botcharnikov, Simon C. Kohn, and Markus Janousch

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241 Effects of ionizing radiation on the hollandite structure-type: Ba0.85Cs0.26Al1.35Fe0.77Ti5.90O16
Abdesselam Abdelouas, Satoshi Utsunomiya, Tomo Suzuki, Bernd Grambow, Thierry Advocat, Florence Bart, and Rodney C. Ewing

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American Mineralogist      Vol. 107, no. 1   January 2022

15    Boron isotope compositions establish the origin of marble from metamorphic complexes: Québec, New York, and Sri Lanka
Corinne Kuebler, Antonio Simonetti, Stefanie S. Simonetti, and Robert F. Martin

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31    Celleriite, (Mn22+Al)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH), a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup
Ferdinando Bosi, Federico Pezzotta, Alessandra Altieri, Giovanni B. Andreozzi, Paolo Ballirano, Gioacchino Tempesta, Jan Cempírek, Radek Škoda, Jan Filip, Renata Čopjaková, Milan Novák, Anthony R. Kampf, Emily D. Scribner, Lee A. Groat, and R. James Evans
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54    Incorporation of incompatible trace elements into molybdenite: Layered PbS precipitates within molybdenite
Yiping Yang, Hongping He, Wei Tan, Qi Tao, Junming Yao, Haiyang Xian, Shangying Li, Jiaxin Xi, Jianxi Zhu, and Huifang Xu
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74    Thermoelastic properties of zircon: Implications for geothermobarometry
Alix M. Ehlers, Gabriele Zaffiro, Ross J. Angel, Tiziana Boffa-Ballaran, Michael A. Carpenter, Matteo Alvaro, and Nancy L. Ross

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82    A Rayleigh model of cesium fractionation in granite-pegmatite systems
David London
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92    The atomic arrangement and electronic interactions in vonsenite at 295, 100, and 90 K
Marc Maderazzo, John M. Hughes, M. Darby Dyar, George R. Rossman, Brandon J. Ackley, Elizabeth C. Sklute, Marian V. Lupulescu, and Jeffrey Chiarenzelli
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100    Oxalate formation by Aspergillus niger on minerals of manganese ores
Olga Frank-Kamenetskaya, Marina Zelenskaya, Alina Izatulina, Vladislav Gurzhiy, Aleksei Rusakov, and Dmitry Vlasov
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116    Mesoproterozoic seafloor authigenic glauconite-berthierine: Indicator of enhanced reverse weathering on early Earth
Jianbai Ma, Xiaoying Shi, Maxwell Lechte, Xiqiang Zhou, Zhenfei Wang, Kangjun Huang, Maxim Rudmin, and Dongjie Tang
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131    Chemical variability in vyacheslavite, U(PO4)(OH): Crystal-chemical implications for hydrous and hydroxylated U4+, Ca, and REE phosphates
Gwladys Steciuk, Radek Škoda, Veronika Dillingerová, and Jakub Plášil
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138    Bennesherite, Ba2Fe2+Si2O7: A new melilite group mineral from the Hatrurim Basin, Negev Desert, Israel
Arkadiusz Krzątała, Biljana Krüger, Irina Galuskina, Yevgeny Vapnik, and Evgeny Galuskin
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147    Single-crystal elasticity of phase Egg AlSiO3OH and δ-AlOOH by Brillouin spectroscopy
Baoyun Wang, Yanyao Zhang, Suyu Fu, Wei Yan, Eiichi Takahashi, Li Li, Jung-Fu Lin, and Maoshuang Song

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LETTER

248

Toward a thermal model for the Skaergaard liquidus
S.A. Morse

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AMORPHOUS MATERIALS: PROPERTIES, STRUCTURE, AND DURABILITY

228

Environments around Al, Si, and Ca in aluminate and aluminosilicate melts by X-ray absorption spectroscopy at high temperature
D.R. Neuville, L. Cormier, D. de Ligny, J. Roux, A-M. Flank, and P. Lagarde

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REGULAR ARTICLE

1

Footemineite, the Mn-analog of atencioite, from the Foote mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, U.S.A., and its relationship with other roscheritegroup minerals
Daniel Atencio, Paulo A. Matioli, Jason B. Smith, Nikita V. Chukanov, José M.V. Coutinho, Ramimiza K. Rastsvetaeva, and Steffen Möckel

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7

Element mobility and scale of mass transport in the formation of quartz veins during regional metamorphism of the Waits River Formation, east-central Vermont
Sarah C. Penniston-Dorland and John M. Ferry

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22

Chemical and physical transfers in an ultramafic rock weathering profile: Part 1. Supergene dissolution of Pt-bearing chromite
Daouda Traoré, Anicet Beauvais, François Chabaux, Chantal Peiffert, Jean-Claude Parisot, Jean-Paul Ambrosi, and Fabrice Colin

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31

Chemical and physical transfers in an ultramafic rock weathering profile: Part 2. Dissolution vs. accumulation of platinum group minerals
Daouda Traoré, Anicet Beauvais, Thierry Augé, Jean Claude Parisot, Fabrice Colin, and Michel Cathelineau

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39

Comparative Raman spectroscopic study on ilmenite-type MgSiO3 (akimotoite), MgGeO3, and MgTiO3 (geikielite) at high temperatures and high pressures
Taku Okada, Toshiharu Narita, Takaya Nagai, and Takamitsu Yamanaka

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48

A low-pressure–high-temperature technique for the piston-cylinder
Gordon Moore, Kurt Roggensack, and Stan Klonowski

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53

Pressure-induced structural deformation and elastic behavior of wairakite
Silvia Ori, Simona Quartieri, Giovanna Vezzalini, and Vladimir Dmitriev

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63

Metamorphic vanadian-chromian silicate mineralization in carbon-rich amphibole schists from the Malé Karpaty Mountains, Western Carpathians, Slovakia
Pavel Uher, Martin Kováčik, Michal Kubiš, Alexander Shtukenberg, and Daniel Ozdín

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74

High-temperature deformation of volcanic materials in the presence of water
G. Robert, J.K. Russell, D. Giordano, and C. Romano

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81

Menezesite, the first natural heteropolyniobate, from Cajati, São Paulo, Brazil: Description and crystal structure
Daniel Atencio, José M.V. Coutinho, Antonio C. Doriguetto, Yvonne P. Mascarenhas, Javier Ellena, and Viviane C. Ferrari

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88

Single-crystal X-ray and Raman investigation on melanophlogite from Varano Marchesi (Parma, Italy)
Mario Tribaudino, Andrea Artoni, Christian Mavris, Danilo Bersani, Pier Paolo Lottici, and Daniele Belletti

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95

Direnzoite, [NaK6MgCa2(Al13Si47O120)·36H2O], a new zeolite from Massif Central (France): Description and crystal structure
E. Galli and A.F. Gualtieri

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103

On twinning and microstructures in calcite and dolomite
Ann-Kristin Larsson and Andrew G. Christy

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114

Density functional calculations of the electronic structure and optical properties of aluminosilicate polymorphs (Al2SiO5)
Sitaram Aryal, Paul Rulis, and W.Y. Ching

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124

Crystal-size distribution and composition of garnets in eclogites from the Dabie orogen, central China
Hao Cheng, Zuyi Zhou, and Eizo Nakamura

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134

Cation order/disorder behavior and crystal chemistry of pyrope-grossular garnets: An 17O 3QMAS and 27Al MAS NMR spectroscopic study
Kimberly E. Kelsey, Jonathan F. Stebbins, Lin-Shu Du, Jed L. Mosenfelder, Paul D. Asimow, and Charles A. Geiger

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144

Analytical transmission electron microscopy study of a natural MORB sample assemblage transformed at high pressure and high temperature
Angèle Ricolleau, Guillaume Fiquet, Ahmed Addad, Nicolas Menguy, Christian Vanni, Jean-Philippe Perrillat, Isabelle Daniel, Hervé Cardon, and Nicolas Guignot

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154

Barioperovskite, BaTiO3, a new mineral from the Benitoite Mine, California
Chi Ma and George R. Rossman

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158

The nature of unusual luminescence in natural calcite CaCO3
Michael Gaft, Lev Nagli, Gerard Panczer, Glenn Waychunas, and Naomi Porat

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168

Carbonate in igneous and metamorphic fluorapatite: Two type A and two type B substitutions
R. Chris Tacker

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177

The crystal structure of diopside at pressure to 10 GPa
Richard M. Thompson and Robert T. Downs

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187

Electron backscatter diffraction analysis of zircon: A systematic assessment of match unit characteristics and pattern indexing optimization
Steven M. Reddy, Nicholas E. Timms, and Bruce M. Eglington

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198

Compressibility trends of the clinopyroxenes, and in-situ high-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction study of jadeite
Andrew C. McCarthy, Robert T. Downs, and Richard M. Thompson

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210

Synthesis and characterization of low-OH–fluor-chlorapatite: A single-crystal XRD and NMR spectroscopic study
Francis M. McCubbin, Harris E. Mason, Hyunsoo Park, Brian L. Phillips, John B. Parise, Hanna Nekvasil, and Donald H. Lindsley

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217

Pressure dependence of the hydrogen-bond geometry in topaz-OD from neutron powder diffraction
K. Komatsu, H. Kagi, W.G. Marshall, T. Kuribayashi, J.B. Parise, and Y. Kudoh

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235

The origin of S4+ detected in silicate glasses by XANES
Max Wilke, Pedro J. Jugo, Kevin Klimm, Jean Susini, Roman Botcharnikov, Simon C. Kohn, and Markus Janousch

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241

Effects of ionizing radiation on the hollandite structure-type: Ba0.85Cs0.26Al1.35Fe0.77Ti5.90O16
Abdesselam Abdelouas, Satoshi Utsunomiya, Tomo Suzuki, Bernd Grambow, Thierry Advocat, Florence Bart, and Rodney C. Ewing

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NEW MINERAL NAMES

252

NEW MINERAL NAMES
Kim Tait, Glenn Poirier, Ralph Rowe and Paula C. Piilonen

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REVIEWERS

257

REVIEWERS 2007

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BOOK REVIEW

259

BOOK REVIEW: WILLS’ MINERAL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF ORE TREATMENT AND MINERAL RECOVERY, Seventh edition, by B.A. Wills and T.J. Napier-Munn. (2006) Butterworth-Heinemann (Elsevier), Burlington, Massachusetts. 456 p. ISBN: 978-0-7506-4450-1.
Vincent J. Van Hinsberg

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DEPOSIT ITEMS

1

Footemineite, the Mn-analog of atencioite, from the Foote mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, U.S.A., and its relationship with other roscheritegroup minerals
Daniel Atencio, Paulo A. Matioli, Jason B. Smith, Nikita V. Chukanov, José M.V. Coutinho, Ramimiza K. Rastsvetaeva, and Steffen Möckel

Item#: AM-08-001
TABLE 6. Calculated (Fc) and observed (Fo) structure factors for the crystal structure of footemineite
AM-08-001.zip zipped

7

Element mobility and scale of mass transport in the formation of quartz veins during regional metamorphism of the Waits River Formation, east-central Vermont
Sarah C. Penniston-Dorland and John M. Ferry

Item#: AM-08-014
Appendix 1 (detection limits and uncertainties of analysis)
AM-08-014.zip zipped

31

Chemical and physical transfers in an ultramafic rock weathering profile: Part 2. Dissolution vs. accumulation of platinum group minerals
Daouda Traoré, Anicet Beauvais, Thierry Augé, Jean Claude Parisot, Fabrice Colin, and Michel Cathelineau

Item#: AM-08-005
Tablea 1 and 2
AM-08-005.zip zipped

81

Menezesite, the first natural heteropolyniobate, from Cajati, São Paulo, Brazil: Description and crystal structure
Daniel Atencio, José M.V. Coutinho, Antonio C. Doriguetto, Yvonne P. Mascarenhas, Javier Ellena, and Viviane C. Ferrari

Item#: AM-08-002
TABLE 8. Observed (Fo) and calculated (Fc) structure factors for the crystal structure of menezesite
AM-08-002.zip zipped

88

Single-crystal X-ray and Raman investigation on melanophlogite from Varano Marchesi (Parma, Italy)
Mario Tribaudino, Andrea Artoni, Christian Mavris, Danilo Bersani, Pier Paolo Lottici, and Daniele Belletti

Item#: AM-08-003
CIF for Melanophlogite, (structure deposited Cambridge Structural Database CSD no. 417910)
AM-08-003.zip zipped

124

Crystal-size distribution and composition of garnets in eclogites from the Dabie orogen, central China
Hao Cheng, Zuyi Zhou, and Eizo Nakamura

Item#: AM-08-006
The compositions for the zonation of various sized-garnets
AM-08-006.zip zipped

177

The crystal structure of diopside at pressure to 10 GPa
Richard M. Thompson and Robert T. Downs

Item#: AM-08-004
CIFs for Diopside
AM-08-004.zip zipped

187

Electron backscatter diffraction analysis of zircon: A systematic assessment of match unit characteristics and pattern indexing optimization
Steven M. Reddy, Nicholas E. Timms, and Bruce M. Eglington

Item#: AM-08-007
Supplimentary Files
AM-08-007.zip zipped
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