American Mineralogist
HIGHLIGHTS AND BREAKTHROUGHS
233
Rover observations in Gusev Crater: Evidence for a style of weathering unique to Mars?
Joshua L. Bandfield
SPECIAL COLLECTION: MARTIAN ROCKS AND MINERALS: PERSPECTIVES FROM ROVERS, ORBITERS AND METEORITES
235
Wishstone to Watchtower: Amorphous alteration of plagioclase-rich rocks in Gusev crater, Mars
Steven W. Ruff and Victoria E. Hamilton
SPECIAL COLLECTION: GEOLOGY AND GEOBIOLOGY OF LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK
252
Oxygen isotope geochemistry of mafic phenocrysts in primitive mafic lavas from the southernmost Cascade Range, California
Sandra J. Underwood and Michael A. Clynne
SPECIAL COLLECTION: DYNAMICS OF MAGMATIC PROCESSES
262
Geochemical and radiogenic isotope probes of Ischia volcano, Southern Italy: Constraints on magma chamber dynamics and residence time
Martina Casalini, Riccardo Avanzinelli, Arnd Heumann, Sandro de Vita, Fabio Sansivero, Sandro Conticelli, and Simone Tommasini
FLUIDS IN THE CRUST
275
Experimental tests on achieving equilibrium in synthetic fluid inclusions: Results for scheelite, molybdenite, and gold solubility at 800 °C and 200 MPa
Insa T. Derrey, Moritz Albrecht, Evgeniya Dupliy, Roman E. Botcharnikov, Ingo Horn, Malte Junge, Stefan Weyer, and François Holtz
SPECIAL COLLECTION: EARTH ANALOGS FOR MARTIAN GEOLOGICAL MATERIALS AND PROCESSES
284
Mineralogy and chemistry of San Carlos high-alkali basalts: Analyses of alteration with application for Mars exploration
Bryné A. Hadnott, Bethany L. Ehlmann, and Bradley L. Jolliff
SPECIAL COLLECTION: WATER IN NOMINALLY HYDROUS AND ANHYDROUS MINERALS
302
Effect of iron and trivalent cations on OH defects in olivine
Marc Blanchard, Jannick Ingrin, Etienne Balan, István Kovács, and Anthony C. Withers
CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY OF EARTH'S MANTLE
312
SiC-dominated ultra-reduced mineral assemblage in carbonatitic xenoliths from the Dalihu basalt, Inner Mongolia, China
Detao He, Yongsheng Liu, Changgui Gao, Chunfei Chen, Zhaochu Hu, and Shan Gao
321
Ab initio calculations of uranium and thorium storage in CaSiO3-perovskite in the Earth’s lower mantle
Samuel N. Perry, Jeffrey S. Pigott, and Wendy R. Panero
SPINELS RENAISSANCE: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF THOSE UBIQUITOUS MINERALS AND MATERIALS
327
Raman spectroscopy and the inversion degree of natural Cr-bearing spinels
Davide Lenaz and Vanni Lughi
333
Chromium influence on Mg-Al intracrystalline exchange in spinels and geothermometric implications
Ferdinando Bosi and Giovanni B. Andreozzi
REGULAR ARTICLE
341
Adakite metasomatism in a back-arc mantle peridotite xenolith from the Sea of Japan
Yuji Ichiyama, Tomoaki Morishita, Akihiro Tamura, and Shoji Arai
347
Effects of fluorine content on the elastic behavior of topaz [Al2SiO4(F,OH)2]
Gianfranco Ulian and Giovanni Valdré
357
Equation of state and hyperfine parameters of high-spin bridgmanite in the Earth’s lower mantle by synchrotron X-ray diffraction and Mössbauer spectroscopy
Zhu Mao, Fan Wang, Jung-Fu Lin, Suyu Fu, Jing Yang, Xiang Wu, Takuo Okuchi, Naotaka Tomioka, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Yuming Xiao, and Paul Chow
369
Calibration of Fe XANES for high-precision determination of Fe oxidation state in glasses: Comparison of new and existing results obtained at different synchrotron radiation sources
Adrian Fiege, Philipp Ruprecht, Adam C. Simon, Aaron S. Bell, Jörg Göttlicher, Matt Newville, Tony Lanzirotti, and Gordon Moore
381
Bacterially mediated morphogenesis of struvite and its implication for phosphorus recovery
Han Li, Qi-Zhi Yao, Sheng-Hui Yu, Ya-Rong Huang, Xiang-Dong Chen, Sheng-Quan Fu, and Gen-Tao Zhou
391
High-pressure high-temperature Raman spectroscopy of kerogen: Relevance to subducted organic carbon
Laurel B. Childress and Steven D. Jacobsen
404
Determination of pressure in aqueo-carbonic fluid inclusions at high temperatures from measured Raman frequency shifts of CO2
Xueyin Yuan, Robert A. Mayanovic, Haifei Zheng, and Qiang Sun
412
Melting, crystallization, and the glass transition: Toward a unified description for silicate phase transitions
H. Wayne Nesbitt, G. Michael Bancroft, Grant, S. Henderson, Pascal Richet, and Cedrick O’Shaughnessy
421
Revisiting the electron microprobe method of spinel-olivine-orthopyroxene oxybarometry applied to spinel peridotites
Fred A. Davis, Elizabeth Cottrell, Suzanne K. Birner, Jessica M. Warren, and Oscar G. Lopez
436
Igneous or metamorphic? Hornblende phenocrysts as greenschist facies reaction cells in the Half Dome Granodiorite, California
Stephen C. Challener and Allen F. Glazner
445
Nuclear-blast induced nanotextures in quartz and zircon within Trinitite
Aaron J. Lussier, Sergei Rouvimov, Peter C. Burns, and Antonio Simonetti
461
Kegginite, Pb3Ca3[AsV12O40(VO)]·20H2O, a new mineral with a novel ε-isomer of the Keggin anion
Anthony R. Kampf, John M. Hughes, Barbara P. Nash, and Joe Marty
New Mineral Names
466
NEW MINERAL NAMES
Reviewers 2016
471
REVIEWERS 2016
DEPOSIT ITEMS
235
Wishstone to Watchtower: Amorphous alteration of plagioclase-rich rocks in Gusev crater, Mars
Steven W. Ruff and Victoria E. Hamilton
252
Oxygen isotope geochemistry of mafic phenocrysts in primitive mafic lavas from the southernmost Cascade Range, California
Sandra J. Underwood and Michael A. Clynne
262
Geochemical and radiogenic isotope probes of Ischia volcano, Southern Italy: Constraints on magma chamber dynamics and residence time
Martina Casalini, Riccardo Avanzinelli, Arnd Heumann, Sandro de Vita, Fabio Sansivero, Sandro Conticelli, and Simone Tommasini
275
Experimental tests on achieving equilibrium in synthetic fluid inclusions: Results for scheelite, molybdenite, and gold solubility at 800 °C and 200 MPa
Insa T. Derrey, Moritz Albrecht, Evgeniya Dupliy, Roman E. Botcharnikov, Ingo Horn, Malte Junge, Stefan Weyer, and François Holtz
302
Effect of iron and trivalent cations on OH defects in olivine
Marc Blanchard, Jannick Ingrin, Etienne Balan, István Kovács, and Anthony C. Withers
312
SiC-dominated ultra-reduced mineral assemblage in carbonatitic xenoliths from the Dalihu basalt, Inner Mongolia, China
Detao He, Yongsheng Liu, Changgui Gao, Chunfei Chen, Zhaochu Hu, and Shan Gao
333
Chromium influence on Mg-Al intracrystalline exchange in spinels and geothermometric implications
Ferdinando Bosi and Giovanni B. Andreozzi
347
Effects of fluorine content on the elastic behavior of topaz [Al2SiO4(F,OH)2]
Gianfranco Ulian and Giovanni Valdré
357
Equation of state and hyperfine parameters of high-spin bridgmanite in the Earth’s lower mantle by synchrotron X-ray diffraction and Mössbauer spectroscopy
Zhu Mao, Fan Wang, Jung-Fu Lin, Suyu Fu, Jing Yang, Xiang Wu, Takuo Okuchi, Naotaka Tomioka, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Yuming Xiao, and Paul Chow
369
Calibration of Fe XANES for high-precision determination of Fe oxidation state in glasses: Comparison of new and existing results obtained at different synchrotron radiation sources
Adrian Fiege, Philipp Ruprecht, Adam C. Simon, Aaron S. Bell, Jörg Göttlicher, Matt Newville, Tony Lanzirotti, and Gordon Moore
381
Bacterially mediated morphogenesis of struvite and its implication for phosphorus recovery
Han Li, Qi-Zhi Yao, Sheng-Hui Yu, Ya-Rong Huang, Xiang-Dong Chen, Sheng-Quan Fu, and Gen-Tao Zhou
421
Revisiting the electron microprobe method of spinel-olivine-orthopyroxene oxybarometry applied to spinel peridotites
Fred A. Davis, Elizabeth Cottrell, Suzanne K. Birner, Jessica M. Warren, and Oscar G. Lopez
436
Igneous or metamorphic? Hornblende phenocrysts as greenschist facies reaction cells in the Half Dome Granodiorite, California
Stephen C. Challener and Allen F. Glazner
461
Kegginite, Pb3Ca3[AsV12O40(VO)]·20H2O, a new mineral with a novel ε-isomer of the Keggin anion
Anthony R. Kampf, John M. Hughes, Barbara P. Nash, and Joe Marty
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