American Mineralogist
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Elastic properties of minerals and the influence of phase transitions
Michael A. Carpenter
LETTER
451
Icosahedral coordination of phosphorus in the crystal structure of melliniite, a new phosphide mineral from the Northwest Africa 1054 acapulcoite
Giovanni Pratesi, Luca Bindi, and Vanni Moggi-Cecchi
455
Mechanism for the dissolution of olivine series minerals in acidic solutions
Yun Liu, Amanda A. Olsen, and J. Donald Rimstidt
459
High-pressure behavior of synthetic antigorite in the MgO-SiO2-H2O system from Raman spectroscopy
B. Reynard and B. Wunder
463
Sinoite (Si2N2O) shocked at pressures of 28 to 64 GPa
Toshimori Sekine, Hongliang He, Takamichi Kobayashi, and Kazusato Shibata
467
Laser Raman spectroscopic measurements of water in unexposed glass inclusions
Rainer Thomas, Vadim S. Kamenetsky, and Paul Davidson
471
The Mars/Earth dichotomy in Mg/Si and Al/Si ratios: Is it real?
Justin Filiberto, Hanna Nekvasil, and Donald H. Lindsley
475
Equation of state of CaIrO3-type MgSiO3 up to 144 GPa
Shigeaki Ono, Takumi Kikegawa, and Yasuo Ohishi
479
Synchrotron infrared spectroscopy of synthetic Na(NaMg)Mg5Si8O22(OH)2 up to 30 GPa: Insight on a new high-pressure amphibole polymorph
Gianluca Iezzi, Zhenxian Liu, and Giancarlo Della Ventura
REGULAR ARTICLE
247
Pressure-induced hydration in zeolite tetranatrolite
Yongjae Lee, Joseph A. Hriljac, John B. Parise, and Thomas Vogt
252
Annealing experiments on induced fission tracks in apatite: Measurements of horizontal-confined track lengths and track densities in basal sections and randomly oriented grains
Carlos A. Tello, Rosane Palissari, Julio C. Hadler, Pedro J. Iunes, Sandro Guedes, Eduardo A.C. Curvo, and Sergio R. Paulo
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Alpersite (Mg,Cu)SO4·7H2O, a new mineral of the melanterite group, and cuprian pentahydrite: Their occurrence within mine waste
Ronald C. Peterson, Jane M. Hammarstrom, and Robert R. Seal II
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Application of a new vanadium valence oxybarometer to basaltic glasses from the Earth, Moon, and Mars
Jim M. Karner, Steven R. Sutton, James J. Papike, Charles K. Shearer, John H. Jones, and Matt Newville
278
Quantitative polarized infrared analysis of trace OH in populations of randomly oriented mineral grains
Paul D. Asimow, Leo C. Stein, Jed L. Mosenfelder, and George R. Rossman
285
Hydrogen incorporation in olivine from 2–12 GPa
Jed L. Mosenfelder, Natalia I. Deligne, Paul D. Asimow, and George R. Rossman
295
A numerical model for steady-state temperature distributions in solid-medium high-pressure cell assemblies
John Hernlund, Kurt Leinenweber, Darren Locke, and James A. Tyburczy
306
Thermodynamics and kinetics of cation ordering in natural and synthetic Mg(Al,Fe3+)2O4 spinels from in situ high-temperature X-ray diffraction
F. Martignago, G.B. Andreozzi, and A. Dal Negro
313
Kinetics of cation ordering in natural Mg(Al,Cr3+)2O4 spinels
F. Princivalle, F. Martignago, and A. Dal Negro
319
Equations of state and structures of andalusite to 9.8 GPa and sillimanite to 8.5 GPa
Jason B. Burt, Nancy L. Ross, Ross J. Angel, and Mario Koch
327
Equation of state and phase transition in KAlSi3O8 hollandite at high pressure
Tristan Ferroir, Tsuyoshi Onozawa, Takehiko Yagi, Sebastien Merkel, Nobuyoshi Miyajima, Norimasa Nishiyama, Tetsuo Irifune, and Takumi Kikegawa
333
A novel arrangement of silicate tetrahedra in the uranyl silicate sheet of oursinite, (Co0.8Mg0.2)[(UO2)(SiO3OH)]2(H2O)6
Karrie-Ann Kubatko and Peter C. Burns
337
Aluminum substitution in stishovite and MgSiO3 perovskite: High-resolution 27Al NMR
Jonathan F. Stebbins, Lin-Shu Du, Kimberly Kelsey, Hiroshi Kojitani, Masaki Akaogi, and Shigeaki Ono
344
The effect of chlorine on the viscosity of Na2O-Fe2O3-Al2O3-SiO2 melts
Milada Zimova and Sharon Webb
353
TEM imaging and analysis of microinclusions in diamonds: A close look at diamond-growing fluids
Ofra Klein-BenDavid, Richard Wirth, and Oded Navon
366
A partial molar volume for ZnO in silicate melts
M. Potuzak, D.B. Dingwell, B. Ledda, and P. Courtial
375
Garnet-spinel intergrowths in ultrahigh-temperature granulite, Eastern Ghats, India: Possible evidence of an early Tschermak-rich orthopyroxene during prograde metamorphism
Kaushik Das, Sankar Bose, Ichiro Ohnishi, and Somnath Dasgupta
385
The partial molar volume of Fe2O3 in alkali silicate melts: Evidence for an average Fe3+ coordination number near five
Qiong Liu and Rebecca A. Lange
394
The crystal structure of a second antigorite polysome (m = 16), by single-crystal synchrotron diffraction
Gian Carlo Capitani and Marcello Mellini
400
Oxide melt solution calorimetry of sulfides: Enthalpy of formation of sphalerite, galena, greenockite, and hawleyite
Suraj Deore and Alexandra Navrotsky
404
An experimental determination of the effect of pressure on the Fe3+/∑Fe ratio of an anhydrous silicate melt to 3.0 GPa
Hugh St.C. O’Neill, Andrew J. Berry, Catherine C. McCammon, Kasthuri D. Jayasuriya, Stewart J. Campbell, and Garry Foran
413
Evolution of product phase assemblages during thermal decomposition of muscovite under strong disequilibrium conditions
Karine Devineau, Bertrand Devouard, Frédéric Villieras, François Faure, Jean-Luc Devidal, and Alain Kohler
425
Synthetic P21/m amphiboles in the system Li2O-Na2O-MgO-SiO2-H2O (LNMSH)
Gianluca Iezzi, Giancarlo Della Ventura, and Mario Tribaudino
430
Incongruent dissolution of wollastonite measured with vertical scanning interferometry
Elisabeth Green and Andreas Luttge
435
Experiments on CaCO3-MgCO3 solid solutions at high pressure and temperature
Alessandra Buob, Robert W. Luth, Max W. Schmidt, and Peter Ulmer
441
Calorimetric data for naturally occurring magnesiocarpholite and ferrocarpholite
Christian Bertoldi, Edgar Dachs, and Thomas Theye
446
Clinopyroxene exsolution in wollastonite from Namaqualand granulite, South Africa
Yusuke Seto, Shugo Ohi, Norimasa Shimobayashi, Masao Kitamura, Akira Miyake, Yoshikuni Hiroi, and Geoffrey H. Grantham
BOOK REVIEW
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BOOK REVIEW: MINERALS FIRST DISCOVERED ON THE TERRITORY OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION by Igor V. Pekov. Ocean Pictures, Moscow, 369 pages.
Florie Caporuscio
REVIEWERS
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REVIEWERS 2005
ERRATA
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ERRATA: Variability of apatite fission-track annealing kinetics: III. Extrapolation to geological time scales, Richard A. Ketcham, Raymond A. Donelick, and William D. Carlson (vol. 84, pages 1235-1255, 1999).
DEPOSIT ITEMS
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Quantitative polarized infrared analysis of trace OH in populations of randomly oriented mineral grains
Paul D. Asimow, Leo C. Stein, Jed L. Mosenfelder, and George R. Rossman
Item#: AM-06-005
Table 1. Test of FTIR orientation determinations with Software – Examples
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Table 1. Test of FTIR orientation determinations with Software – Examples
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TEM imaging and analysis of microinclusions in diamonds: A close look at diamond-growing fluids
Ofra Klein-BenDavid, Richard Wirth, and Oded Navon
Item#: AM-06-006
Appendix 1. TEM-EDAX analysis of phases identified in the microinclusions in foil 446 of Diamond ON-DVK-272. Appendix 2. TEM-EDAX analysis of phases identified in the microinclusions in the foil 418 of Diamond ON-DVK-281. Appendix 3. TEM-EDAX analysis of phases identified in the microinclusions in the foil 452 of Diamond ON-DVK-294. Appendix 4. TEM-EDAX analysis of phases identified in the microinclusions in the foil 453 of Diamond ON-DVK-294. Appendix 5. Selected TEN-EDAX analysis of phases identified in the cavities in the foil 450 of Diamond ON-DVK-294.
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Appendix 1. TEM-EDAX analysis of phases identified in the microinclusions in foil 446 of Diamond ON-DVK-272. Appendix 2. TEM-EDAX analysis of phases identified in the microinclusions in the foil 418 of Diamond ON-DVK-281. Appendix 3. TEM-EDAX analysis of phases identified in the microinclusions in the foil 452 of Diamond ON-DVK-294. Appendix 4. TEM-EDAX analysis of phases identified in the microinclusions in the foil 453 of Diamond ON-DVK-294. Appendix 5. Selected TEN-EDAX analysis of phases identified in the cavities in the foil 450 of Diamond ON-DVK-294.
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The crystal structure of a second antigorite polysome (m = 16), by single-crystal synchrotron diffraction
Gian Carlo Capitani and Marcello Mellini
441
Calorimetric data for naturally occurring magnesiocarpholite and ferrocarpholite
Christian Bertoldi, Edgar Dachs, and Thomas Theye
451
Icosahedral coordination of phosphorus in the crystal structure of melliniite, a new phosphide mineral from the Northwest Africa 1054 acapulcoite
Giovanni Pratesi, Luca Bindi, and Vanni Moggi-Cecchi
Item#: AM-06-009
Table 2. Calculated (Fc) and observed (Fo) structure factors for the crystal structure of melliniite
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Table 2. Calculated (Fc) and observed (Fo) structure factors for the crystal structure of melliniite
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Mechanism for the dissolution of olivine series minerals in acidic solutions
Yun Liu, Amanda A. Olsen, and J. Donald Rimstidt
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