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Hibonite-(Fe), (Fe,Mg)Al12O19, a new alteration mineral from the Allende meteorite
Chi Ma
192
Ion irradiation of the TiO2 polymorphs and cassiterite
Gregory R. Lumpkin, Mark G. Blackford, Katherine L. Smith, Karl R. Whittle, Nestor J. Zaluzec, Edward A. Ryan, and Pete Baldo
196
Corundum + orthopyroxene ± spinel intergrowths in an ultrahigh-temperature Al-Mg granulite from the Southern Marginal Zone, Limpopo Belt, South Africa
G.A. Belyanin, H.M. Rajesh, D.D. Van Reenen, and H. Mouri
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Fe3+ spin transition in CaFe2O4 at high pressure
Marco Merlini, Michael Hanfland, Mauro Gemmi, Simo Huotari, Laura Simonelli, and Pierre Strobel
REGULAR ARTICLE
1
Metamorphic ultrahigh-pressure tourmaline: Structure, chemistry, and correlations to P-T conditions
Andreas Ertl, Horst R. Marschall, Gerald Giester, Darrell J. Henry, Hans-Peter Schertl, Theodoros Ntaflos, George L. Luvizotto, Lutz Nasdala, and Ekkehart Tillmanns
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Slavikite—Revision of chemical composition and crystal structure
Jan Parafiniuk, Åukasz Dobrzycki, and Krzysztof Woźniak
19
Anisotropic elasticity of jarosite: A high-P synchrotron XRD study
Hongwu Xu, Yusheng Zhao, Jianzhong Zhang, Yuejian Wang, Donald D. Hickmott, Luke L. Daemen, Monika A. Hartl, and Liping Wang
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Tourmaline of the elbaite-schorl series from the Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande, California: A detailed investigation
Andreas Ertl, George R. Rossman, John M. Hughes, David London, Ying Wang, Julie A. O’Leary, M. Darby Dyar, Stefan Prowatke, Thomas Ludwig, and Ekkehart Tillmanns
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Characterization of Al-Si ordering state in an alkali feldspar using atom location by channeling-enhanced microanalysis (ALCHEMI)
Jun Wu and David R. Veblen
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The relative stability of stoichiometrically related natural and synthetic double salts
Claude H. Yoder, Naomi R. Gotlieb, and Anne L. Rowand
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Free energy of formation of zircon based on solubility measurements at high temperature and pressure
Robert C. Newton, Craig E. Manning, John M. Hanchar, and Clinton V. Colasanti
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Structure refinement of a synthetic knorringite, Mg3(Cr0.8Mg0.1Si0.1)2(SiO4)3
Amélie Juhin, Guillaume Morin, Erik Elkaïm, Daniel J. Frost, Michel Fialin, Farid Juillot, and Georges Calas
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A mineral tracer toward high-resolution dust provenance on the Chinese Loess Plateau: SEM, TEM, and sulfur isotopes of sulfate inclusions in biotite
Gi Young Jeong and Kwang-Sik Lee
73
High-resolution TEM study of jimthompsonite, chesterite, and chain-width disorder in Archean ultramafic rocks from Isua, West Greenland
Hiromi Konishi, Huifang Xu, and Robert F. Dymek
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Retrograde hydration sequence in disordered Mg amphiboles: A TEM investigation
Marco Ferrari and Cecilia Viti
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Can electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) be used to quantify hydrogen in minerals from the O K edge?
Laurence A.J. Garvie
98
Texture analysis of a turbostratically disordered Ca-montmorillonite
Luca Lutterotti, Marco Voltolini, Hans-Rudolf Wenk, Kaushik Bandyopadhyay, and Tiziana Vanorio
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Packing systematics of the silica polymorphs: The role played by O-O nonbonded interactions in the compression of quartz
Richard M. Thompson and Robert T. Downs
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Calorimetric study of the surface energy of forsterite
Shushu Chen and Alexandra Navrotsky
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Crystallographic texture of the magnetite-hematite transformation: Evidence for topotactic relationships in natural samples from Quadrilátero FerrÃfero, Brazil
Paola Ferreira Barbosa and Leonardo Lagoeiro
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Semi-ordered crystalline structure of the Santa Olalla vermiculite inferred from X-ray powder diffraction
Arancha Argüelles, Matteo Leoni, Jesús A. Blanco, and Celia Marcos
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Stishovite single-crystal growth and application to silicon self-diffusion measurements
Anton Shatskiy, Daisuke Yamazaki, Yuriy M. Borzdov, Takuya Matsuzaki, Konstantin D. Litasov, Titus Cooray, Anais Ferot, Eiji Ito, and Tomoo Katsura
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Density of dry peridotite magma at high pressure using an X-ray absorption method
Tatsuya Sakamaki, Eiji Ohtani, Satoru Urakawa, Akio Suzuki, and Yoshinori Katayama
148
The crystal-structure and vacancy distribution in 6C pyrrhotite
Johan P.R. de Villiers and David C. Liles
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Thermal modification of hematite-ilmenite intergrowths in the Ecstall pluton, British Columbia, Canada
Sarah J. Brownlee, Joshua M. Feinberg, Richard J. Harrison, Takeshi Kasama, Gary R. Scott, and Paul R. Renne
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A new Al-rich hydroxylian pseudorutile from Kalimantan, Indonesia
Ian E. Grey, Pierre Bordet, Nicholas C. Wilson, Raimunda Townend, Timothy J. Bastow, and Michela Brunelli
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Lapeyreite, Cu3O[AsO3(OH)]2·0.75H2O, a new mineral: Its description and crystal structure
Halil Sarp, Radovan Černý, Hakki Babalik, Murat Hatipoğlu, and Gilbert Mari
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High P–T phase relation of magnesian (Mg0.7Fe0.3) staurolite compositon in the system FeO-MgOAl2O3-SiO2-H2O: Implications for prograde high-pressure history of ultrahigh-temperature metamorphic rocks
Kei Sato, M. Santosh, and Toshiaki Tsunogae
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Abbreviations for names of rock-forming minerals
Donna L. Whitney and Bernard W. Evans
NEW MINERAL NAMES
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NEW MINERAL NAMES
Paula C. Piilonen and Glenn Poirier
DEPOSIT ITEMS
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Slavikite—Revision of chemical composition and crystal structure
Jan Parafiniuk, Åukasz Dobrzycki, and Krzysztof Woźniak
126
Semi-ordered crystalline structure of the Santa Olalla vermiculite inferred from X-ray powder diffraction
Arancha Argüelles, Matteo Leoni, Jesús A. Blanco, and Celia Marcos
148
The crystal-structure and vacancy distribution in 6C pyrrhotite
Johan P.R. de Villiers and David C. Liles
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Lapeyreite, Cu3O[AsO3(OH)]2·0.75H2O, a new mineral: Its description and crystal structure
Halil Sarp, Radovan Černý, Hakki Babalik, Murat Hatipoğlu, and Gilbert Mari
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High P–T phase relation of magnesian (Mg0.7Fe0.3) staurolite compositon in the system FeO-MgOAl2O3-SiO2-H2O: Implications for prograde high-pressure history of ultrahigh-temperature metamorphic rocks
Kei Sato, M. Santosh, and Toshiaki Tsunogae
Item#: AM-10-001
Appendix Tables 1-4. Chemical composition of phases in run products
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Appendix Tables 1-4. Chemical composition of phases in run products
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Corundum + orthopyroxene ± spinel intergrowths in an ultrahigh-temperature Al-Mg granulite from the Southern Marginal Zone, Limpopo Belt, South Africa
G.A. Belyanin, H.M. Rajesh, D.D. Van Reenen, and H. Mouri
Item#: AM-10-003
Table 1 Representative chemical compositions of corundum + orthopyroxene ± spinel intergrowths
AM-10-003.zip zipped
Table 1 Representative chemical compositions of corundum + orthopyroxene ± spinel intergrowths
AM-10-003.zip zipped
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