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224 The elastic properties of diopside, CaMgSi2O6
Liqin Sang, Carine B. Vanpeteghem, Stanislas V. Sinogeikin, and Jay D. Bass
MSA Presidential Address
Mickey E. Gunter
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1 A mineralogical, geochemical, and microbiogical assessment of the antimony and arsenic-rich neutral mine drainage tailings near Pezinok, Slovakia
Juraj Majzlan, Bronislava Lalinská, Martin Chovan, Ulrich Bläß, Björn Brecht, Jörg Göttlicher, Ralph Steininger, Katrin Hug, Sibylle Ziegler, and Johannes Gescher
14 Luminescence of diamonds from metamorphic rocks
Loryn F. Bruce, Maya G. Kopylova, Micaela Longo, John Ryder, and Larissa F. Dobrzhinetskaya
23 Crystal chemistry of Th in fluorapatite
Yun Luo, John Rakovan, Yuanzhi Tang, Marian Lupulescu, John M. Hughes, and Yuanming Pan
34 Hydrogen-bond and cation partitioning in muscovite: A single-crystal neutron-diffraction study at 295 and 20 K
G. Diego Gatta, G.J. McIntyre, R. Sassi, N. Rotiroti, and A. Pavese
42 Spectroscopic characterization of transition metal impurities in natural montebrasite/amblygonite
L.N. Dias, M.V.B. Pinheiro, R.L. Moreira, K. Krambrock, K.J. Guedes, L.A.D. Menezes Filho, J. Karfunkel, J. Schnellrath, and R. Scholz
53 An assessment of the potential benefits of ion implants as trace-element reference material for electron probe X-ray microanalysis: The case of invisible gold
Yves Thibault and Allen R. Pratt
60 The incorporation of hydroxyl into zircon
Dustin Trail, Jay B. Thomas, and E. Bruce Watson
68 Association between phosphorus and iron oxides in manganese ores
Geraldo Magela da Costa and Larissa Ribeiro Herzog
74 Equation of state of carbonated hydroxylapatite at ambient temperature up to 10 GPa: Significance of carbonate
Xi Liu, Sean R. Shieh, Michael E. Fleet, Lifei Zhang, and Qiang He
81 Monoclinic tridymite in clast-rich impact melt rock from the Chesapeake Bay impact structure
John C. Jackson, J. Wright Horton Jr., I-Ming Chou, and Harvey E. Belkin
89 Phase boundary between perovskite and postperovskite structures in MnGeO3 determined by in situ X-ray diffraction measurements using sintered diamond anvils
Daisuke Yamazaki, Eiji Ito, Tomoo Katsura, Takashi Yoshino, Shuangmeng Zhai, Hiroshi Fukui, Anton Shatskiy, Xinzhuan Guo, Shuangming Shan, Takuo Okuchi, Yoshinori Tange, Yuji Higo, and Ken-ichi Funakoshi
93 Hydrogenation of FeSi under high pressure
Hidenori Terasaki, Yuki Shibazaki, Tatsuya Sakamaki, Ryuji Tateyama, Eiji Ohtani, Ken-ichi Funakoshi, and Yuji Higo
100 Fe-Ti oxide-silicate (QUIlF-type) equilibria in feldspathoid-bearing systems
Julian Schilling, B. Ronald Frost, Michael A.W. Marks, Thomas Wenzel, and Gregor Markl
111 In situ bubble vesiculation in silicic magmas
C. Gondé, C. Martel, M. Pichavant, and H. Bureau
125 First-principles calculation of the elastic moduli of sheet silicates and their application to shale anisotropy
B. Militzer, H.-R. Wenk, S. Stackhouse, and L. Stixrude
138 A new semi-micro wet chemical method for apatite analysis and its application to the crystal chemistry of fluorapatite-chlorapatite solid solutions
Georg Schettler, Matthias Gottschalk, and Daniel E. Harlov
153 New insight into the structural transformation of partially dehydroxylated pyrophyllite
Victor A. Drits, Arkadiusz Derkowski, and Douglas K. McCarty
172 A 94-layer long-period mica polytype: A TEM study
Rosa Anna Fregola and Eugenio Scandale
179 The crystal structure of stichtite, re-examination of barbertonite, and the nature of polytypism in MgCr hydrotalcites
Stuart J. Mills, Pamela S. Whitfield, Sasha Wilson, Joanne N. Woodhouse, Gregory M. Dipple, Mati Raudsepp, and Carl A. Francis
188 Vorlanite (CaU6+)O4—A new mineral from the Upper Chegem caldera, Kabardino-Balkaria, Northern Caucasus, Russia
Evgeny V. Galuskin, Thomas Armbruster, Irina O. Galuskina, Biljana Lazic, Antoni Winiarski, Viktor M. Gazeev, Piotr Dzierżanowski, Aleksandr E. Zadov, Nikolai N. Pertsev, Roman Wrzalik, Anatoly G. Gurbanov, and Janusz Janeczek
197 The structure of braitschite, a calcium rare earth borate
Clare E. Rowland, Christopher L. Cahill, and Jeffrey E. Post
202 Alteration of dehydrated schoepite and soddyite to studtite, [(UO2)(O2)(H2O)2](H2O)2
Tori Z. Forbes, Patrick Horan, Tara Devine, Daniel McInnis, and Peter C. Burns
207 A reinvestigation of smectite illitization in experimental hydrothermal conditions: Results from X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy
Eric Ferrage, Olivier Vidal, Régine Mosser-Ruck, Michel Cathelineau, and Javier Cuadros
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LETTER
224
The elastic properties of diopside, CaMgSi2O6
Liqin Sang, Carine B. Vanpeteghem, Stanislas V. Sinogeikin, and Jay D. Bass
REGULAR ARTICLE
1
A mineralogical, geochemical, and microbiogical assessment of the antimony and arsenic-rich neutral mine drainage tailings near Pezinok, Slovakia
Juraj Majzlan, Bronislava Lalinská, Martin Chovan, Ulrich Bläß, Björn Brecht, Jörg Göttlicher, Ralph Steininger, Katrin Hug, Sibylle Ziegler, and Johannes Gescher
14
Luminescence of diamonds from metamorphic rocks
Loryn F. Bruce, Maya G. Kopylova, Micaela Longo, John Ryder, and Larissa F. Dobrzhinetskaya
23
Crystal chemistry of Th in fluorapatite
Yun Luo, John Rakovan, Yuanzhi Tang, Marian Lupulescu, John M. Hughes, and Yuanming Pan
34
Hydrogen-bond and cation partitioning in muscovite: A single-crystal neutron-diffraction study at 295 and 20 K
G. Diego Gatta, G.J. McIntyre, R. Sassi, N. Rotiroti, and A. Pavese
42
Spectroscopic characterization of transition metal impurities in natural montebrasite/amblygonite
L.N. Dias, M.V.B. Pinheiro, R.L. Moreira, K. Krambrock, K.J. Guedes, L.A.D. Menezes Filho, J. Karfunkel, J. Schnellrath, and R. Scholz
53
An assessment of the potential benefits of ion implants as trace-element reference material for electron probe X-ray microanalysis: The case of invisible gold
Yves Thibault and Allen R. Pratt
60
The incorporation of hydroxyl into zircon
Dustin Trail, Jay B. Thomas, and E. Bruce Watson
68
Association between phosphorus and iron oxides in manganese ores
Geraldo Magela da Costa and Larissa Ribeiro Herzog
74
Equation of state of carbonated hydroxylapatite at ambient temperature up to 10 GPa: Significance of carbonate
Xi Liu, Sean R. Shieh, Michael E. Fleet, Lifei Zhang, and Qiang He
81
Monoclinic tridymite in clast-rich impact melt rock from the Chesapeake Bay impact structure
John C. Jackson, J. Wright Horton Jr., I-Ming Chou, and Harvey E. Belkin
89
Phase boundary between perovskite and postperovskite structures in MnGeO3 determined by in situ X-ray diffraction measurements using sintered diamond anvils
Daisuke Yamazaki, Eiji Ito, Tomoo Katsura, Takashi Yoshino, Shuangmeng Zhai, Hiroshi Fukui, Anton Shatskiy, Xinzhuan Guo, Shuangming Shan, Takuo Okuchi, Yoshinori Tange, Yuji Higo, and Ken-ichi Funakoshi
93
Hydrogenation of FeSi under high pressure
Hidenori Terasaki, Yuki Shibazaki, Tatsuya Sakamaki, Ryuji Tateyama, Eiji Ohtani, Ken-ichi Funakoshi, and Yuji Higo
100
Fe-Ti oxide-silicate (QUIlF-type) equilibria in feldspathoid-bearing systems
Julian Schilling, B. Ronald Frost, Michael A.W. Marks, Thomas Wenzel, and Gregor Markl
111
In situ bubble vesiculation in silicic magmas
C. Gondé, C. Martel, M. Pichavant, and H. Bureau
125
First-principles calculation of the elastic moduli of sheet silicates and their application to shale anisotropy
B. Militzer, H.-R. Wenk, S. Stackhouse, and L. Stixrude
138
A new semi-micro wet chemical method for apatite analysis and its application to the crystal chemistry of fluorapatite-chlorapatite solid solutions
Georg Schettler, Matthias Gottschalk, and Daniel E. Harlov
153
New insight into the structural transformation of partially dehydroxylated pyrophyllite
Victor A. Drits, Arkadiusz Derkowski, and Douglas K. McCarty
172
A 94-layer long-period mica polytype: A TEM study
Rosa Anna Fregola and Eugenio Scandale
179
The crystal structure of stichtite, re-examination of barbertonite, and the nature of polytypism in MgCr hydrotalcites
Stuart J. Mills, Pamela S. Whitfield, Sasha Wilson, Joanne N. Woodhouse, Gregory M. Dipple, Mati Raudsepp, and Carl A. Francis
188
Vorlanite (CaU6+)O4—A new mineral from the Upper Chegem caldera, Kabardino-Balkaria, Northern Caucasus, Russia
Evgeny V. Galuskin, Thomas Armbruster, Irina O. Galuskina, Biljana Lazic, Antoni Winiarski, Viktor M. Gazeev, Piotr Dzierżanowski, Aleksandr E. Zadov, Nikolai N. Pertsev, Roman Wrzalik, Anatoly G. Gurbanov, and Janusz Janeczek
197
The structure of braitschite, a calcium rare earth borate
Clare E. Rowland, Christopher L. Cahill, and Jeffrey E. Post
202
Alteration of dehydrated schoepite and soddyite to studtite, [(UO2)(O2)(H2O)2](H2O)2
Tori Z. Forbes, Patrick Horan, Tara Devine, Daniel McInnis, and Peter C. Burns
207
A reinvestigation of smectite illitization in experimental hydrothermal conditions: Results from X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy
Eric Ferrage, Olivier Vidal, Régine Mosser-Ruck, Michel Cathelineau, and Javier Cuadros
BOOK REVIEW
228
THE PERIODIC TABLE—ITS STORY AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE by Eric R. Scerri. (2006) Oxford University Press, 349 pages. ISBN: 978-0-19-530573-9
John C. Schumacher
DEPOSIT ITEMS
34
Hydrogen-bond and cation partitioning in muscovite: A single-crystal neutron-diffraction study at 295 and 20 K
G. Diego Gatta, G.J. McIntyre, R. Sassi, N. Rotiroti, and A. Pavese
138
A new semi-micro wet chemical method for apatite analysis and its application to the crystal chemistry of fluorapatite-chlorapatite solid solutions
Georg Schettler, Matthias Gottschalk, and Daniel E. Harlov
179
The crystal structure of stichtite, re-examination of barbertonite, and the nature of polytypism in MgCr hydrotalcites
Stuart J. Mills, Pamela S. Whitfield, Sasha Wilson, Joanne N. Woodhouse, Gregory M. Dipple, Mati Raudsepp, and Carl A. Francis
188
Vorlanite (CaU6+)O4—A new mineral from the Upper Chegem caldera, Kabardino-Balkaria, Northern Caucasus, Russia
Evgeny V. Galuskin, Thomas Armbruster, Irina O. Galuskina, Biljana Lazic, Antoni Winiarski, Viktor M. Gazeev, Piotr Dzierżanowski, Aleksandr E. Zadov, Nikolai N. Pertsev, Roman Wrzalik, Anatoly G. Gurbanov, and Janusz Janeczek
197
The structure of braitschite, a calcium rare earth borate
Clare E. Rowland, Christopher L. Cahill, and Jeffrey E. Post

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