American Mineralogist
LETTERS
539
Synthesis of K-dominant tourmaline
Eleanor Berryman, Bernd Wunder and Dieter Rhede
543
Subsolidus isothermal fractional crystallization
David London
547
Merwinite in diamond from São Luiz, Brazil: A new mineral of the Ca-rich mantle environment
Dmitriy A. Zedgenizov, Anton Shatskiy, Alexey L. Ragozin, Hiroyuki Kagi and Vladislav S. Shatsky
HIGHLIGHTS AND BREAKTHROUGHS
253
Entrapping CO2, while recovering methane
Jong-Won Jung
SPINELS RENAISSANCE: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF THOSE UBIQUITOUS MINERALS AND MATERIALS
255
Static positional disorder in ulvšspinel: A single-crystal neutron diffraction study
G. Diego Gatta, Ferdinando Bosi, Garry J. McIntyre and Ulf HŒlenius
261
Color of Mn-bearing gahnite: A first example of electronic transitions in heterovalent exchange coupledÊIVMn2+-VIMn3+Êpairs in mineral
Ulf HŒlenius and Ferdinando Bosi
267
Low intra-crystalline closure temperatures of Cr-bearing spinels from the mantle xenoliths of the Middle Atlas Neogene-Quaternary Volcanic Field (Morocco): Mineralogical evidence of a cooler mantle beneath the West African Craton
Davide Lenaz, Nasrrddine Youbi, Angelo De Min, Moulay Ahmed Boumehdi and Mohamed Ben Abbou
ACTINIDES IN GEOLOGY, ENERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
276
Crystal structure of lead uranyl carbonate mineral widenmannite: Precession electron-diffraction and synchrotron powder-diffraction study
Jakub Pl‡_il, Luk‡_ Palatinus, Jan Rohl’_ek, _Lenka Houdkov‡, Mariana Klementov‡, Viktor Goli‡_ and Pavel _k‡cha
WHAT LURKS IN THE MARTIAN ROCKS AND SOIL? INVESTIGATIONS OF SULFATES, PHOSPHATES, AND PERCHLORATES
283
Sulfate-bearing deposits at Dalangtan Playa and their implication for the formation and preservation of martian salts
W.G. Kong, M.P. Zheng, F.J. Kong and W.X. Chen
291
Alteration of Hawaiian basalts under sulfur-rich conditions: Applications to understanding surface-atmosphere interactions on Mars and Venus
Molly C. McCanta, M. Darby Dyar and Allan H. Treiman
REGULAR ARTICLE
303
Scheelite elemental and isotopic signatures: Implications for the genesis of skarn-type W-Mo deposits in the Chizhou Area, Anhui Province, Eastern China
Guoxue Song, Kezhang Qin, Guangming Li, 
Noreen J. Evans and Lei Chen
318
Structural and dynamical relationships of Ca2+ and H2O in smectite/2H2O systems
Geoffrey M. Bowers, Jared W. Singer, David L. Bish and 
R. James Kirkpatrick
332
Fluorescence of trivalent neodymium in various materials excited by a 785 nm laser
Hongmei Chen and Richard W. Stimets
343
Experimental study of the formation of chalcopyrite and bornite via the sulfidation of hematite: Mineral replacements with a large volume increase
Jing Zhao, Joël Brugger, Guorong Chen, Yung Ngothai and Allan Pring
355
Magma chamber dynamics recorded by oscillatory zoning in pyroxene and olivine phenocrysts in basaltic lunar meteorite Northwest Africa 032
Stephen M. Elardo and Charles K. Shearer Jr.
369
Solid solution in the fluorapatite-chlorapatite binary system: High-precision crystal structure refinements of synthetic F-Cl apatite
John M. Hughes, Hanna Nekvasil, Gokce Ustunisik, Donald H. Lindsley, Aron E. Coraor, John Vaughn, Brian L. Phillips, Francis M. McCubbin and William R. Woerner
377
Surface-specific measurements of olivine dissolution by phase-shift interferometry
Helen E. King, Hisao Satoh, Katsuo Tsukamoto and Andrew Putnis
387
Ab initio computation on the Fe L-edge X-ray emission spectroscopy of Fe-bearing MgSiO3 perovskite
Xianlong Wang and Taku Tsuchiya
393
The two aluminum sites in theÊ27Al MAS NMR spectrum of kaolinite: Accurate determination of isotropic chemical shifts and quadrupolar interaction parametersr
Micha‘l Paris
401
Interaction of methane hydrate complexes with smectites: Experimental results compared to molecular models
Rubén Martos-Villa, Stephen Guggenheim, M. Pilar Mata, C. Ignacio Sainz-DÃaz and Fernando Nieto
415
Spin and valence states of iron in Al-bearing silicate glass at high pressures studied by synchrotron Mössbauer and X-ray emission spectroscopy
Zhu Mao, Jung-Fu Lin, Jing Yang, Junjie Wu, 
Heather C. Watson, Yuming Xiao, Paul Chow and 
Jiyong Zhao
424
The role of magmatic and hydrothermal processes in the evolution of Be-bearing pegmatites: Evidence from beryl and its breakdown products
Sabina Strmić Palinkaš, Reinhard Wegner, Andrea Čobić, Ladislav A. Palinkaš, Sandra De Brito Barreto, 
Tamás Váczi and Vladimir Bermanec
433
Evaluation of residual pressure in an inclusion-host system using negative frequency shift of quartz Raman spectra
Yui Kouketsu, Tadao Nishiyama, Takeshi Ikeda and Masaki Enami
443
Variation in XANES in biotite as a function of orientation, crystal composition, and metamorphic history
Katy A. Evans, M. Darby Dyar, Steven M. Reddy, 
Antonio Lanzirotti, David T. Adams and Nick Tailby
458
Tetrahedral ferric iron in oxidized hydrous wadsleyite
Joseph R. Smyth, Nathalie Bolfan-Casanova, Daniel Avignant, Malika El-Ghozzi and Sarah M. Hirner
467
Visible to near-infrared optical properties of pure synthetic olivine across the olivine solid solution
Peter J. Isaacson, Rachel L. Klima, Jessica M. Sunshine, Leah C. Cheek, Carle M. Pieters, Takahiro Hiroi, M. Darby Dyar, Melissa Lane and Janice Bishop
479
Cordierite under hydrostatic compression: Anomalous elastic behavior as a precursor for a pressure-induced phase transition
Ronald Miletich, G. Diego Gatta, Thomas Willi, Peter W. Mirwald, Paolo Lotti, Marco Merlini, Nicola Rotiroti and Thomas Loerting
494
Strontiohurlbutite, SrBe2(PO4)2, a new mineral from Nanping No. 31 pegmatite, Fujian Province, Southeastern ChinaÊ
Can Rao, Rucheng Wang, FrŽdŽric Hatert, Xiangping Gu, Luisa Ottolini, Huan Hu, Chuanwan Dong, Fabrice Dal Bo and Maxime Baijot
500
The Bi sulfates from the Alfenza Mine, Crodo, Italy: An automatic electron diffraction tomography (ADT) study
Gian Carlo Capitani, Enrico Mugnaioli, Jordi Rius,Paolo Gentile, Tiziano Catelani, Andrea Lucotti and Ute Kolb
511
The high-pressure behavior of bloedite: A synchrotron single-crystal X-ray diffraction study
Paola Comodi, Sabrina Nazzareni, Tonci Bali_-_uni_, _Azzurra Zucchini and Michael Hanfland
519
Ghiaraite: A new mineral from Vesuvius volcano, Naples (Italy)
Manuela Rossi, Fabrizio Nestola, Federico Zorzi, 
Arianna Lanza, Luca Peruzzo, Alessandro Guastoni and Anatoly Kasatkin
525
Lavinskyite, K(LiCu)Cu6(Si4O11)2(OH)4, isotypic with plancheite, a new mineral from the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South AfricaÊ
Hexiong Yang, Robert T. Downs, Stanley H. Evans and William W. Pinch
531
Transformation of graphite to diamond via a topotactic mechanism
Laurence A.J. Garvie, Péter Németh and Peter R. Buseck
NEW MINERAL NAMES
551
New mineral names
Fernando Cámara, G. Diego Gatta and Dmitriy Belakovskiy
BOOK REVIEW
556
EARTH MATERIALS: Introduction to Mineralogy and Petrology
Jo Laird
ADDENDUM
557
ADDENDUM
S.A. Morse and J. Allaz
REVIEWERS
559
American Mineralogist thanks the year 2013 reviewers
DEPOSIT ITEMS
255
Static positional disorder in ulvšspinel: A single-crystal neutron diffraction study
G. Diego Gatta, Ferdinando Bosi, Garry J. McIntyre and Ulf HŒlenius
261
Color of Mn-bearing gahnite: A first example of electronic transitions in heterovalent exchange coupledÊIVMn2+-VIMn3+Êpairs in mineral
Ulf HŒlenius and Ferdinando Bosi
267
Low intra-crystalline closure temperatures of Cr-bearing spinels from the mantle xenoliths of the Middle Atlas Neogene-Quaternary Volcanic Field (Morocco): Mineralogical evidence of a cooler mantle beneath the West African Craton
Davide Lenaz, Nasrrddine Youbi, Angelo De Min, Moulay Ahmed Boumehdi and Mohamed Ben Abbou
276
Crystal structure of lead uranyl carbonate mineral widenmannite: Precession electron-diffraction and synchrotron powder-diffraction study
Jakub Pl‡_il, Luk‡_ Palatinus, Jan Rohl’_ek, _Lenka Houdkov‡, Mariana Klementov‡, Viktor Goli‡_ and Pavel _k‡cha
355
Magma chamber dynamics recorded by oscillatory zoning in pyroxene and olivine phenocrysts in basaltic lunar meteorite Northwest Africa 032
Stephen M. Elardo and Charles K. Shearer Jr.
369
Solid solution in the fluorapatite-chlorapatite binary system: High-precision crystal structure refinements of synthetic F-Cl apatite
John M. Hughes, Hanna Nekvasil, Gokce Ustunisik, Donald H. Lindsley, Aron E. Coraor, John Vaughn, Brian L. Phillips, Francis M. McCubbin and William R. Woerner
Anisotropic displacement parameters (Table 5), observed and calculated structure factors (Tables 6aÐ6d), and CIFs (Table 7)
AM-14-207.zip zipped
377
Surface-specific measurements of olivine dissolution by phase-shift interferometry
Helen E. King, Hisao Satoh, Katsuo Tsukamoto and Andrew Putnis
393
The two aluminum sites in theÊ27Al MAS NMR spectrum of kaolinite: Accurate determination of isotropic chemical shifts and quadrupolar interaction parametersr
Micha‘l Paris
433
Evaluation of residual pressure in an inclusion-host system using negative frequency shift of quartz Raman spectra
Yui Kouketsu, Tadao Nishiyama, Takeshi Ikeda and Masaki Enami
458
Tetrahedral ferric iron in oxidized hydrous wadsleyite
Joseph R. Smyth, Nathalie Bolfan-Casanova, Daniel Avignant, Malika El-Ghozzi and Sarah M. Hirner
467
Visible to near-infrared optical properties of pure synthetic olivine across the olivine solid solution
Peter J. Isaacson, Rachel L. Klima, Jessica M. Sunshine, Leah C. Cheek, Carle M. Pieters, Takahiro Hiroi, M. Darby Dyar, Melissa Lane and Janice Bishop
479
Cordierite under hydrostatic compression: Anomalous elastic behavior as a precursor for a pressure-induced phase transition
Ronald Miletich, G. Diego Gatta, Thomas Willi, Peter W. Mirwald, Paolo Lotti, Marco Merlini, Nicola Rotiroti and Thomas Loerting
494
Strontiohurlbutite, SrBe2(PO4)2, a new mineral from Nanping No. 31 pegmatite, Fujian Province, Southeastern ChinaÊ
Can Rao, Rucheng Wang, FrŽdŽric Hatert, Xiangping Gu, Luisa Ottolini, Huan Hu, Chuanwan Dong, Fabrice Dal Bo and Maxime Baijot
500
The Bi sulfates from the Alfenza Mine, Crodo, Italy: An automatic electron diffraction tomography (ADT) study
Gian Carlo Capitani, Enrico Mugnaioli, Jordi Rius,Paolo Gentile, Tiziano Catelani, Andrea Lucotti and Ute Kolb
511
The high-pressure behavior of bloedite: A synchrotron single-crystal X-ray diffraction study
Paola Comodi, Sabrina Nazzareni, Tonci Bali_-_uni_, _Azzurra Zucchini and Michael Hanfland
525
Lavinskyite, K(LiCu)Cu6(Si4O11)2(OH)4, isotypic with plancheite, a new mineral from the Wessels mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, South AfricaÊ
Hexiong Yang, Robert T. Downs, Stanley H. Evans and William W. Pinch
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