American Mineralogist
MSA PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
185
Scales of disequilibrium and rates of equilibration during metamorphism
William D. Carlson
LETTER
359
Chloride ion sites in silicate and aluminosilicate glasses: a preliminary study by 35Cl solid-state NMR
Jonathan F. Stebbins and Lin-Shu Du
364
Nuclear magnetic resonance and infrared spectroscopic study of excess-boron olenite from Koralpe, Styria, Austria
Bernd Marler and Andreas Ertl
REGULAR ARTICLE
205
Characterization of coexisting NH4– and K-micas in very low-grade metapelites
Fernando Nieto
217
Effect of sonic and ultrasonic frequencies on the crystallization of basalt
Karen S. Bartels and Tanya Furman
227
Sulfur saturation limits in silicate melts and their implications for core formation scenarios for terrestrial planets
Astrid Holzheid and Timothy L. Grove
238
Molecular water in beryl, VIAl2 [Be3Si6O18]·nH2O, as a function of pressure and temperature: An experimental study
Rainer Pankrath and Klaus Langer
245
Fluid-induced nucleation of (Y + REE)-phosphate minerals within apatite: Nature and experiment. Part I. Chlorapatite
Daniel E. Harlov, Hans-Jürgen Förster, and Timo G. Nijland
262
X-ray spectroscopic investigations of fluids in the hydrothermal diamond anvil cell: The hydration structure of aqueous La3+ up to 300 °C and 1600 bars
Alan J. Anderson, Sumedha Jayanetti, Robert A. Mayanovic, William A. Bassett, and I-Ming Chou
269
Fibrous nanoinclusions in massive rose quartz: HRTEM and AEM investigations
Chi Ma, Julia S. Goreva, and George R. Rossman
277
Polysomatism in h??gbomite: The crystal structures of 10T, 12H, 14T, and 24R polysomes
Clivia Hejny and Thomas Armbruster
293
Ordering of hydroxyl defects in hydrous wadsleyite β-Mg2SiO4)
S.C. Kohn, R.A. Brooker, D.J. Frost, A.E. Slesinger, and B.J. Wood
302
The crystal structure and cation ordering of Phase-X-(K1-x-n)2 (Mg1-n[Al,Cr]n)2Si2O7H2x
A potential K- and H-bearing phase in the mantle
Franco Mancini, George E. Harlow, and Christopher Cahill
307
Feasibility of determining the quantitative OH content of garnets with Raman spectroscopy
Elizabeth H. Arredondo and George R. Rossman
312
Raman spectroscopic study of garnet inclusions in diamonds from the mantle transition zone
Philippe Gillet, Violaine Sautter, Jeffery Harris, Bruno Reynard, Benjamin Harte, and Martin Kunz
318
Raman spectroscopy of Fe2O3 to 62 GPa
Sang-Heon Shim and Thomas S. Duffy
327
Study of the (010) olivine surface by Rutherford backscattering spectrometry in channeling geometry
Laurence Lemelle, François Abel, Camille Cohen, and François Guyot
333
Equation of state of dense hydrous magnesium silicate phase A, Mg7Si2O8(OH)6
Wilson A. Crichton and Nancy L. Ross
339
Si-F bonding in aluminosilicate glasses: Inferences from ab initio NMR calculations
Yun Liu and Hanna Nekvasil
347
Monoclinic nearly stoichiometric wüstite at low temperatures
Helmer Fjellåg, Bjørn C. Hauback, Tom Vogt, and Svein Stølen
350
On the nature of tincalconite
Rudy L. Luck and Ge Wang
NEW MINERAL NAMES
355
NEW MINERAL NAMES
John L. Jambor and Andrew C. Roberts
MEMORIAL
370
MEMORIAL: Memorial of Harold Lloyd James, 1912-2000
Paul B. Barton
BOOK REVIEW
368
BOOK REVIEW: OPTICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY. By F. Donald Bloss. Mineralogical Society of America (Monograph Series, Publication no. 5), 1999, Washington, D.C. 239 p.
Edward F. Stoddard
ERRATA
372
ERRATUM: Minor element chemistry of hemo-ilmenite and magnetite in cumulate rocks from the Sokndal Region, South Rogaland, Norway, by Peter Robinson, Peter T. Panish, and Suzanne A. McEnroe (vol. 86, p. 1469-1476, 2001).
DEPOSIT ITEMS
205
Characterization of coexisting NH4– and K-micas in very low-grade metapelites
Fernando Nieto
277
Polysomatism in h??gbomite: The crystal structures of 10T, 12H, 14T, and 24R polysomes
Clivia Hejny and Thomas Armbruster
Appendix 1: Observed and calculated F-values of högbomite-24. Appendix 2: Observed and calculated F-values of högbomite-10. Appendix 3. Bond valences (v.u.) for högbomite-24
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