American Mineralogist
LETTER
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Rh??nite in Luna 24 pyroxenes: First find from the Moon, and implications for volatiles in planetary magmas
Allan H. Treiman
492
New high-pressure B2 phase of FeS above 180 GPa
Nagayoshi Sata, Hiroaki Ohfuji, Kei Hirose, Hisao Kobayashi, Yasuo Ohishi, and Naohisa Hirao
495
Magnesium K-edge EXAFS study of bond-length behavior in synthetic pyrope-grossular garnet solid solutions
Simona Quartieri, Federico Boscherini, Chiara Dalconi, Gianluca Iezzi, Carlo Meneghini, and Roberta Oberti
PETROLOGIC MINERALOGY SPECIAL SECTION
261
Petrologic Mineralogy—the study of minerals in context: A memorial in honor of Charles V. Guidotti
M. Darby Dyar, Edward S. Grew, Darrell J. Henry, and Francesco P. Sassi
263
Why is amazonitic K-feldspar an earmark of NYF-type granitic pegmatites? Clues from hybrid pegmatites in Madagascar
Robert F. Martin, Caterina De Vito, and Federico Pezzotta
270
Metamorphosed Ordovician Fe- and Mn-rich rocks in south-central Maine: From peri-Gondwanan deposition through Acadian metamorphism
David P. West Jr., Martin G. Yates, Christopher Gerbi, and Nellie Q. Barnard
283
Boralsilite, Al16B6Si2O37, and “boron-mullite:†Compositional variations and associated phases in experiment and nature
Edward S. Grew, Heribert A. Graetsch, Birgit Pöter, Martin G. Yates, Ian Buick, Heinz-Jürgen Bernhardt, Werner Schreyer, Günter Werding, Christopher J. Carson, and Geoffrey L. Clarke
300
Prograde muscovite-rich pseudomorphs as indicators of conditions during metamorphism: An example from NW Maine
Barbara L. Dutrow, C.T. Foster Jr., and Jennifer Whittington
315
Wagnerite in a cordierite-gedrite gneiss: Witness of long-term fluid-rock interaction in the continental crust (Ile d’Yeu, Armorican Massif, France)
Pavel Pitra, Philippe Boulvais, Vladimir Antonoff, and Hervé Diot
327
Mineral chemistry of Ti-rich biotite from pegmatite and metapelitic granulites of the Kerala Khondalite Belt (southeast India): Petrology and further insight into titanium substitutions
Bernardo Cesare, Madhusoodhan Satish-Kumar, Giuseppe Cruciani, Shabeer Pocker, and Luca Nodari
339
Multiple titanium substitutions in biotites from high-grade metapelitic xenoliths (Euganean Hills, Italy): Complete crystal chemistry and appraisal of petrologic control
Raffaele Sassi, Giuseppe Cruciani, Claudio Mazzoli, Luca Nodari, and John Craven
351
Proto-polymorphs of jimthompsonite and chesterite in contact-metamorphosed serpentinites from Japan
Hiromi Konishi, Peter R. Buseck, Huifang Xu, and Xiaochun Li
360
Silicate garnet: A micro to macroscopic (re)view
Charles A. Geiger
373
Monazite occurrence, chemistry, and chronology in the granitoid rocks of the Lachlan Fold Belt, Australia: An electron microprobe study
Aaron B. Kelts, Minghua Ren, and Elizabeth Y. Anthony
384
Single-crystal 40Ar/39Ar age variation in muscovite of the Gassetts Schist and associated gneiss, Vermont Appalachians
Willis E. Hames, John T. Cheney, and Robert J. Tracy
396
Single-crystal X-ray studies of trioctahedral micas coexisting with dioctahedral micas in metamorphic sequences from western Maine
M.F. Brigatti, C.V. Guidotti, D. Malferrari, and F.P. Sassi
409
Tourmaline chemistry and the IIIB site
Christine M. Clark, Eva R. Wadoski, and Emily D. Freeman
414
The octahedral sheet of metamorphic 2M1-phengites: A combined EMPA and AXANES study
Giannantonio Cibin, Gianfelice Cinque, Augusto Marcelli, Annibale Mottana, and Raffaele Sassi
426
Crystal chemistry of phlogopite from Vulture-S. Michele Subsynthem volcanic rocks (Mt. Vulture, Italy) and volcanological implications
Silvia Matarrese, Emanuela Schingaro, Fernando Scordari, Francesco Stoppa, Gianluigi Rosatelli, Giuseppe Pedrazzi, and Luisa Ottolini
438
Beneath the Stillwater Complex: Petrology and geochemistry of quartz-plagioclase-cordierite (or garnet)-orthopyroxene-biotite ±spinel hornfels, Mountain View area, Montana
Jennifer A. Thomson
451
Correlation between crystallization pressure and structural parameters of phengites
Nadia Curetti, Giovanni Ferraris, and Gabriella Ivaldi
REGULAR ARTICLE
456
The modular structure of dovyrenite, Ca6Zr[Si2O7]2(OH)4: Alternate stacking of tobermorite and rosenbuschite-like units
Milen Kadiyski, Thomas Armbruster, Evgeny V. Galuskin, Nikolay N. Pertsev, Aleksander E. Zadov, Irina O. Galuskina, Roman Wrzalik, Piotr Dzierzanowski, and Evgeny V. Kislov
463
Environmental parameters affect the physical properties of fast-growing magnetosomes
Damien Faivre, Nicolas Menguy, Mihály Pósfai, and Dirk Schüler
470
In situ Raman spectroscopy measurements of MgAl2O4 spinel up to 1400 °C
Sarah P. Slotznick and Sang-Heon Shim
477
Vibrational properties of δ-AlOOH under pressure
Jun Tsuchiya, Taku Tsuchiya, and Renata M. Wentzcovitch
483
Mössbauer spectroscopic study of synthetic leucophosphite, KFe2(PO4)2(OH)·2H2O
V.G. de Resende, G.M. da Costa, E. De Grave, and A. Van Alboom
ERRATUM
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ERRATUM: Measurement of U-Pb ages of uraninite and davidite by laser ablation-HR-ICP-MS by Don Chipley, Paul Polito, and T. Kurtis Kyser (vol. 92, p. 1925–1935, 2007: Erratum DOI: 10.2138/am.2008.510).
Don Chipley, Paul Polito, and T. Kurtis Kyser
DEPOSIT ITEMS
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Boralsilite, Al16B6Si2O37, and “boron-mullite:†Compositional variations and associated phases in experiment and nature
Edward S. Grew, Heribert A. Graetsch, Birgit Pöter, Martin G. Yates, Ian Buick, Heinz-Jürgen Bernhardt, Werner Schreyer, Günter Werding, Christopher J. Carson, and Geoffrey L. Clarke
Appendix Table 1. List of bondlengths for synthetic boralsilite., Appendix Table 2. Minerals in boralsilite-bearing sections, Stornes Peninsula, Larsemann Hills, Antarctica and Appendix Table 3. GPS coordinates for localities and samples cited in text.
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Multiple titanium substitutions in biotites from high-grade metapelitic xenoliths (Euganean Hills, Italy): Complete crystal chemistry and appraisal of petrologic control
Raffaele Sassi, Giuseppe Cruciani, Claudio Mazzoli, Luca Nodari, and John Craven
373
Monazite occurrence, chemistry, and chronology in the granitoid rocks of the Lachlan Fold Belt, Australia: An electron microprobe study
Aaron B. Kelts, Minghua Ren, and Elizabeth Y. Anthony
Appendix tables I, II, III, IV (complete data from the analyses).
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Single-crystal 40Ar/39Ar age variation in muscovite of the Gassetts Schist and associated gneiss, Vermont Appalachians
Willis E. Hames, John T. Cheney, and Robert J. Tracy
396
Single-crystal X-ray studies of trioctahedral micas coexisting with dioctahedral micas in metamorphic sequences from western Maine
M.F. Brigatti, C.V. Guidotti, D. Malferrari, and F.P. Sassi
Tables 7A, 7B, and 8 (Atom coordinates, equivalent, and anisotropic displacement factors,as well as observed and calculated structure factors),
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The modular structure of dovyrenite, Ca6Zr[Si2O7]2(OH)4: Alternate stacking of tobermorite and rosenbuschite-like units
Milen Kadiyski, Thomas Armbruster, Evgeny V. Galuskin, Nikolay N. Pertsev, Aleksander E. Zadov, Irina O. Galuskina, Roman Wrzalik, Piotr Dzierzanowski, and Evgeny V. Kislov
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