American Mineralogist
ACTINIDES IN GEOLOGY, ENERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
518
Evidence for nanocrystals of vorlanite, a rare uranate mineral, in the Nopal I low-temperature uranium deposit (Sierra Peña Blanca, Mexico)
Guillaume Othmane, Thierry Allard, Nicolas Menguy, Guillaume Morin, Imène Esteve, Mostafa Fayek, and Georges Calas
REGULAR ARTICLE
285
Pressure-induced structural transformations in the low-cristobalite form of AlPO4
H.K. Poswal, Nandini Garg, Maddury Somayazulu, and Surinder M. Sharma
292
Hydrokenomicrolite, (ï¯,H2O)2Ta2(O,OH)6(H2O), a new microlite-group mineral from Volta Grande pegmatite, Nazareno, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Marcelo B. Andrade, Daniel Atencio, Nikita V. Chukanov, and Javier Ellena
297
Fluor-elbaite, Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3F, a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup
Ferdinando Bosi, Giovanni B. Andreozzi, Henrik Skogby, Aaron J. Lussier, Yassir Abdu, and Frank C. Hawthorne
304
Microtexture development during rapid cooling in three rhyolitic lava flows
Sheila J. Seaman
319
Microbial and inorganic control on the composition of clay from volcanic glass alteration experiments
Javier Cuadros, Beytullah Afsin, Premroy Jadubansa, Mahmoud Ardakani, Carmen Ascaso, and Jacek Wierzchos
335
High-pressure experiments on phase transition boundaries between corundum, Rh2O3(II)- and CaIrO3-type structures in Al2O3
Jinya Kato, Kei Hirose, Haruka Ozawa, and Yasuo Ohishi
340
Electronic structure effects in the vectorial bond-valence model
Barry R. Bickmore, Matthew F.C. Wander, Joel Edwards, Josh Maurer, Kendrick Shepherd, Eric Meyer, W. Joel Johansen, Rose A. Frank, Charles Andros, and Matthew Davis
350
Geometric analysis of radiation damage connectivity in zircon, and its implications for helium diffusion
Richard A. Ketcham, William R. Guenthner, and Peter W. Reiners
361
Superstructure, crystal chemistry, and cation distribution in filipstadite, a Sb5+-bearing, spinel-related mineral
Paola Bonazzi, Laura Chelazzi, and Luca Bindi
367
A high-temperature Brillouin scattering study on four compositions of haplogranitic glasses and melts: High-frequency elastic behavior through the glass transition
Anwar Hushur, Murli H. Manghnani, Quentin Williams, and Donald B. Dingwell
376
Hydrogen isotope fractionation between coexisting hydrous melt and silicate-saturated aqueous fluid: An experimental study in situ at high pressure and temperature
Bjorn Mysen
387
Eclogitic clasts with omphacite and pyrope-rich garnet in the NWA 801 CR2 chondrite
Makoto Kimura, Naoji Sugiura, Takashi Mikouchi, Takao Hirajima, Hajime Hiyagon, and Yoshie Takehana
394
Hydration properties of synthetic high-charge micas saturated with different cations: An experimental approach
Esperanza Pavón, Miguel A. Castro, Moisés Naranjo, M. Mar Orta, M. Carolina Pazos, and MarÃa D. Alba
401
Quantitative analyses of powdered multi-minerallic carbonate aggregates using a portable Raman spectrometer
Petra Kristova, Laurence Hopkinson, Ken Rutt, Hazel Hunter, and Gordon Cressey
410
Periodic ab initio bulk investigation of hydroxylapatite and type A carbonated apatite with both pseudopotential and all-electron basis sets for calcium atoms
Gianfranco Ulian, Giovanni Valdrè, Marta Corno, and Piero Ugliengo
417
Coexisting pseudobrookite, ilmenite, and titanomagnetite in hornblende andesite of the Coleman Pinnacle flow, Mount Baker, Washington: Evidence for a highly oxidized arc magma
Emily K. Mullen and I. Stewart McCallum
426
Geochemistry of pyrochlore minerals from the Motzfeldt Center, South Greenland: The mineralogy of a syenite-hosted Ta, Nb deposit
Jamie A. McCreath, Adrian A. Finch, Donald A. Herd, and Ashlyn Armour-Brown
439
Phosphovanadylite-Ca, Ca[V4+4P2O8(OH)8]·12H2O, the Ca analogue of phosphovanadylite-Ba
Anthony R. Kampf, Barbara P. Nash, and Thomas A. Loomis
444
The relationship between REE-Y-Nb-Th minerals and the evolution of an A-type granite, Wentworth Pluton, Nova Scotia
Angeliki D. Papoutsa and Georgia Pe-Piper
463
Prewittite, KPb1.5Cu6Zn(SeO3)2O2Cl10, a new mineral from Tolbachik fumaroles, Kamchatka peninsula, Russia: Description and crystal structure
Robert R. Shuvalov, Lidiya P. Vergasova, Tatyana F. Semenova, Stanislav K. Filatov, Sergey V. Krivovichev, Oleg I. Siidra, and Nikolay S. Rudashevsky
470
Lucabindiite, (K,NH4)As4O6(Cl,Br), a new fumarole mineral from the “La Fossa†crater at Vulcano, Aeolian Islands, Italy
Anna Garavelli, Donatella Mitolo, Daniela Pinto, and Filippo Vurro
478
Scottyite, the natural analog of synthetic BaCu2Si2O7, a new mineral from the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa
Hexiong Yang, Robert T. Downs, Stanley H. Evans, and William W. Pinch
485
Oxy-schorl, Na(Fe2+2Al)Al6Si6O18(BO3)3(OH)3O, a new mineral from Zlatá Idka, Slovak Republic and Přibyslavice, Czech Republic
Peter BaÄÃk, Jan CempÃrek, Pavel Uher, Milan Novák, Daniel OzdÃn, Jan Filip, Radek Å koda, Karel Breiter, Mariana Klementová, Rudolf ÄŽuÄa, and Lee A. Groat
493
Crystal chemistry and hydrogen bonding of rustumite Ca10(Si2O7)2(SiO4)(OH)2Cl2 with variable OH, Cl, F
Frank Gfeller, Thomas Armbruster, Evgeny V. Galuskin, Irina O. Galuskina, Biljana Lazic, Valentina B. Savelyeva, Aleksandr E. Zadov, Piotr Dzierżanowski, and Viktor M. Gazeev
501
Oxy-vanadium-dravite, NaV3(V4Mg2)(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3O: Crystal structure and redefinition of the “vanadium-dravite†tourmaline
Ferdinando Bosi, Leonid Z. Reznitskii, and Eugene V. Sklyarov
506
Lead-tellurium oxysalts from Otto Mountain near Baker, California: VIII. Fuettererite, Pb3Cu2+6Te6+O6(OH)7Cl5, a new mineral with double spangolite-type sheets
Anthony R. Kampf, Stuart J. Mills, Robert M. Housley, and Joseph Marty
512
Lead-tellurium oxysalts from Otto Mountain near Baker, California: IX. Agaite, Pb3Cu2+Te6+O5(OH)2(CO3), a new mineral with CuO5-TeO6 polyhedral sheets
Anthony R. Kampf, Stuart J. Mills, Robert M. Housley, and Joseph Marty
BOOK REVIEW
522
BOOK REVIEW: FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF AFRICA: A SYNOPSIS OF 3.8 GA OF EARTH HISTORY edited by D.J.J. van Hinsbergen, S.J.H Buiter, T.H. Torsvik, G. Gaina, and S.J. Webb (2011) Geological Society London Special Publication number 357. 378 pp. ISBN: 1-86239-335-4.
Maarten de Wit
ERRATUM
524
ERRATUM: Nomenclature of the tourmaline-supergroup minerals by Darrell J. Henry, Milan Novák, Frank C. Hawthorne, Andreas Ertl, Barbara L. Dutrow, Pavel Uher, and Federico Pezzotta (May-June, vol. 96, p. 895–913, 2011: Article DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2138/am.2011.3636. Erratum DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2138/am.2013.614.)
REVIEWERS
525
REVIEWERS Thanks 2012
DEPOSIT ITEMS
285
Pressure-induced structural transformations in the low-cristobalite form of AlPO4
H.K. Poswal, Nandini Garg, Maddury Somayazulu, and Surinder M. Sharma
292
Hydrokenomicrolite, (ï¯,H2O)2Ta2(O,OH)6(H2O), a new microlite-group mineral from Volta Grande pegmatite, Nazareno, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Marcelo B. Andrade, Daniel Atencio, Nikita V. Chukanov, and Javier Ellena
297
Fluor-elbaite, Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3F, a new mineral species of the tourmaline supergroup
Ferdinando Bosi, Giovanni B. Andreozzi, Henrik Skogby, Aaron J. Lussier, Yassir Abdu, and Frank C. Hawthorne
340
Electronic structure effects in the vectorial bond-valence model
Barry R. Bickmore, Matthew F.C. Wander, Joel Edwards, Josh Maurer, Kendrick Shepherd, Eric Meyer, W. Joel Johansen, Rose A. Frank, Charles Andros, and Matthew Davis
361
Superstructure, crystal chemistry, and cation distribution in filipstadite, a Sb5+-bearing, spinel-related mineral
Paola Bonazzi, Laura Chelazzi, and Luca Bindi
394
Hydration properties of synthetic high-charge micas saturated with different cations: An experimental approach
Esperanza Pavón, Miguel A. Castro, Moisés Naranjo, M. Mar Orta, M. Carolina Pazos, and MarÃa D. Alba
410
Periodic ab initio bulk investigation of hydroxylapatite and type A carbonated apatite with both pseudopotential and all-electron basis sets for calcium atoms
Gianfranco Ulian, Giovanni Valdrè, Marta Corno, and Piero Ugliengo
439
Phosphovanadylite-Ca, Ca[V4+4P2O8(OH)8]·12H2O, the Ca analogue of phosphovanadylite-Ba
Anthony R. Kampf, Barbara P. Nash, and Thomas A. Loomis
444
The relationship between REE-Y-Nb-Th minerals and the evolution of an A-type granite, Wentworth Pluton, Nova Scotia
Angeliki D. Papoutsa and Georgia Pe-Piper
Table (Conditions and standards used for microprobe analyses.)
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463
Prewittite, KPb1.5Cu6Zn(SeO3)2O2Cl10, a new mineral from Tolbachik fumaroles, Kamchatka peninsula, Russia: Description and crystal structure
Robert R. Shuvalov, Lidiya P. Vergasova, Tatyana F. Semenova, Stanislav K. Filatov, Sergey V. Krivovichev, Oleg I. Siidra, and Nikolay S. Rudashevsky
470
Lucabindiite, (K,NH4)As4O6(Cl,Br), a new fumarole mineral from the “La Fossa†crater at Vulcano, Aeolian Islands, Italy
Anna Garavelli, Donatella Mitolo, Daniela Pinto, and Filippo Vurro
478
Scottyite, the natural analog of synthetic BaCu2Si2O7, a new mineral from the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South Africa
Hexiong Yang, Robert T. Downs, Stanley H. Evans, and William W. Pinch
485
Oxy-schorl, Na(Fe2+2Al)Al6Si6O18(BO3)3(OH)3O, a new mineral from Zlatá Idka, Slovak Republic and Přibyslavice, Czech Republic
Peter BaÄÃk, Jan CempÃrek, Pavel Uher, Milan Novák, Daniel OzdÃn, Jan Filip, Radek Å koda, Karel Breiter, Mariana Klementová, Rudolf ÄŽuÄa, and Lee A. Groat
493
Crystal chemistry and hydrogen bonding of rustumite Ca10(Si2O7)2(SiO4)(OH)2Cl2 with variable OH, Cl, F
Frank Gfeller, Thomas Armbruster, Evgeny V. Galuskin, Irina O. Galuskina, Biljana Lazic, Valentina B. Savelyeva, Aleksandr E. Zadov, Piotr Dzierżanowski, and Viktor M. Gazeev
501
Oxy-vanadium-dravite, NaV3(V4Mg2)(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3O: Crystal structure and redefinition of the “vanadium-dravite†tourmaline
Ferdinando Bosi, Leonid Z. Reznitskii, and Eugene V. Sklyarov
506
Lead-tellurium oxysalts from Otto Mountain near Baker, California: VIII. Fuettererite, Pb3Cu2+6Te6+O6(OH)7Cl5, a new mineral with double spangolite-type sheets
Anthony R. Kampf, Stuart J. Mills, Robert M. Housley, and Joseph Marty
512
Lead-tellurium oxysalts from Otto Mountain near Baker, California: IX. Agaite, Pb3Cu2+Te6+O5(OH)2(CO3), a new mineral with CuO5-TeO6 polyhedral sheets
Anthony R. Kampf, Stuart J. Mills, Robert M. Housley, and Joseph Marty
518
Evidence for nanocrystals of vorlanite, a rare uranate mineral, in the Nopal I low-temperature uranium deposit (Sierra Peña Blanca, Mexico)
Guillaume Othmane, Thierry Allard, Nicolas Menguy, Guillaume Morin, Imène Esteve, Mostafa Fayek, and Georges Calas
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